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 ...

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 ...

HAMBURG — For some time now, climate scientists have been discussing a troubling hypothesis: Is global warming accelerating? The German Physics Society and the German Meteorological Society are now ...

The numbers don’t lie — and when it comes to global warming, they paint a picture that demands urgent attention. From record-breaking temperatures to collapsing ice sheets, the scientific data tells a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if industry rapidly becomes more sustainable, households will still need to change their lifestyles to meet climate targets. Industrial ecologist Stephanie Cap warns that households cannot do ...

A new study finds that warming of 2°C could expose nearly 3.8 billion people to extreme heat by mid-century, more than double current levels. Rising temperatures are expected to drive surging energy ...

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 ...

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 ...