UN climate talks in Paris tasked with beating back the threat of global warming are scheduled to conclude on Friday. The so-called “greenhouse effect” is a natural phenomenon that has made Earth warm ...

Climate change is reshaping weather patterns, raising temperatures and affecting ecosystems worldwide. Understanding its ...

The news has been full of headlines about findings from a United Nations report: the world is set to exceed the 1.5 C global warming target set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. The report has raised ...

Activists at the COP climate conference held last year in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference will be in Brazil next month. Raising ambition to meet the Paris Agreement goal is a key discussion ...

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Over the past year, there has been a vigorous debate among scientists – and more broadly – about whether global warming is “accelerating”. This, in turn, has led to questions about whether the world ...

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 million years ago, covering a time when Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ...

A British newspaper ignites a new fight over climate change with its interpretation of new temperature data released by the U.K. government The British government's meteorological service recently ...

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world ...

Soon, the world will gather in Paris to forge a global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for dangerous levels of global warming. The so-called “greenhouse effect” is a natural phenomenon ...