A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.

In today’s world, global warming and socio-geopolitical conflicts have become dangerously intertwined. The continuous rise in ...

The Paris target is based on very strong scientific evidence that the impacts of climate change would be far greater at 2C of ...

Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just three years away from breaching the 1.5°C climate goal ...

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit planet-warming carbon dioxide are hopeful that Congress will keep tax ...

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than ...

The document describes oceans as facing a “global emergency,” ravaged by warming temperatures, plastic pollution, and the ...

An international study using glacier models shows that even stabilizing temperatures at today’s levels would still cause ...

Short, intense summer rainfall in Alpine regions is likely to become more frequent and severe in the future because of global ...

“Looking at that 3 degrees centigrade warmer [than the year 2000] future corresponds to about a 13 percent loss in daily ...

Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists ...