The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

It's one of the latest technologies for sequestering carbon: crush silicate rocks, add to crop soil, and let the rock dust ...

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 ...

For years, climate policy has been built around the idea that humanity still had a narrow window to keep global warming within a relatively “safe” range. Now a wave of new research suggests that ...

One of the consequences of climate change is that weather events are becoming more extreme. In counterintuitive ways, like ...

When almost 200 nations signed the Paris climate agreement in 2015, they pledged to keep Earth's average temperature to no greater than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Now a recent ...

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and ...

In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear to be plants. Each coral polyp houses microscopic algae that convert ...