The study of climate change refugia — places that are buffered from the worst effects of global warming — has grown rapidly ...

The average temperature of the Earth is rising at nearly twice the rate it was 50 years ago. This rapid warming trend cannot ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Here's an item to help governments point fingers at the next climate-change conference: a map of the world's countries, scaled to highlight those disproportionately responsible for generating ...

A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, at ...

In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, policymakers across the globe have designed countless laws around the ...

Predicted global temperature rise this century has fallen slightly to 2.8C under current policies, UN experts said as they warned that the world was still heading for a serious escalation in impacts.

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming. Hundreds of ...

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