Peter Kalmus was among a group of scientists who chained themselves to a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles in protest of the bank’s financing of fossil fuels. Tap to watch the video
Schools and colleges shut indefinitely after India’s top court terms poor air quality levels an ‘emergency’
Recent satellite images released by Nasa show Delhi and the surrounding regions resembling…
Scientists from agency and Noaa say Earth’s ‘energy imbalance’ roughly doubled from 2005 to 2019 in ‘alarming’ way
The Earth is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, according to new…
The month’s global temperature puts 2020 closer to being the hottest year on record.
This past November was the hottest ever recorded, another global temperature milestone in a year that’s one step…
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under more than a mile of ice that may hold secrets to Greenland's past climate.
The lake formed when northwest Greenland was ice-free, sometime…
Mr Pence also claimed that Mr Biden would ban fracking which Senator Harris strongly refuted
Mike Pence refused to say that climate change is an existential threat and repeated Donald Trump’s claim…
Satellites record 61% rise in hotspots over September 2019
Scientist warns: ‘It could get worse if the drought continues’
Fires in Brazil’s Amazon increased 13% in the first nine months of…
The 2020 melting season still has at least another month to gnaw away at Arctic sea ice, but it has already consumed a lot. In July, the ice cover spanning the Arctic Ocean reached a record-low…
Scientists gave the caps 5 years to live in a 2017 study. Climate change killed them in record time.
On frosty Ellesmere Island, where Arctic Canada butts up against the northwestern edge of…
Another NASA climate scientist has revealed their charged politics and waded into racially charged linkages between “climate justice” and “racial justice.” and “white supremacy.” NASA’s Dr.
Satellites have now spotted the churning cyclone.
Satellites have spotted the first named storm of the 2020 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, Tropical Storm Arthur, swirling off the coast of North…
For much of human history, it's been hard for scientists to learn about remote areas of the Earth that they cannot observe directly.
Jack Kaye is associate director for research in NASA's Earth…
Sea Level
LATEST MEASUREMENT:
December 2019
95 (± 4) mm
Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and…
Greenland and coastal Louisiana may not seem to have a lot in common. An autonomous territory of Denmark, Greenland is covered in snow most of the year and is home to about 56,000 people. On the…
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat 28 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 100-year timescale. Concentrations of methane have increased by more than 150% since…
Data from NASA's GRACE and GRACE Follow-On satellites show that the land ice sheets in both Antarctica (upper chart) and Greenland (lower chart) have been losing mass since 2002. The GRACE mission…
Ozone levels above the Arctic reached a record low for March, NASA researchers report. An analysis of satellite observations show that ozone levels reached their lowest point on March 12 at 205…
Half a century in a timeline.
50 years of events, climate policy, actions and data about CO2, temperature, and population.
50 years that have brought science to the foreground of policymaking.