Global Warming

A photo showing polar ice melting in Greenland. Image credits: Dave Meckler/Unsplash The world’s great ice sheets are…

There is an increasing body of evidence connecting climate change and severe weather events. In 2004, a group…

Is Antarctica’s ice loss a crucial warning? Why extra snowfall can’t save the ice sheet and what it…

The vast majority of planet-warming emissions come from just 178 oil, gas, and cement companies known as the…

New research based on satellite data going back to the 1970s has documented major ⁠polar ice losses in…

El Niño variability in the eastern Pacific has increased by about 36.5% compared with the pre-industrial era, according…

In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…

When it comes to hotspots of toxic heavy metal pollution, Antarctica probably doesn’t come to mind. This remote…

It’s been a particularly apocalyptic summer. Relentless, record-shattering heatwaves, untamable wildfires, and deadly floods are just some of…

Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). Credit: Sarah…

The nation’s top scientific advisory body issued a report on Thursday backing a growing field of science that…

European summers are getting too hot for medicines. As heat waves routinely push past 40 °C across the…

12 Trillion Tons of Polar Ice Are Already Gone and What’s Left Is Melting Fast. But the Biggest Culprit Isn’t Surface Melting