As a grueling March heat wave batters the U.S. West with dangerous temperatures, and the world girds itself for what could be another sizzling record-smashing Super El Niño, a team of researchers has ...

This puts us on a collision course with the climate’s tipping points, said Stefan Rahmstorf, an author of the study and head ...

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 ...

Global warming has picked up speed in the past decade, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). By removing short term natural influences such as El ...

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...