The first global ice-loss survey using satellite data showed ice is disappearing faster in Antarctica and Greenland.
Melting on the ice sheets has accelerated so much over the past three decades…
Scientists say temperatures globally at highest level since start of human civilisation.
The planet is hotter now than it has been for at least 12,000 years, a period spanning the entire development…
The latest data confirms 2020 concludes the earth’s warmest 10-year period on record.
The HadCRUT5 global temperature series, produced by the Met Office, University of East Anglia and UK National…
Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years.
The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme…
Late-summer temperatures may prove unbearable for some visitors, posing threat to vital holiday industry.
Increased heat in Mediterranean countries is making the traditional summer beach holiday…
Dense U.N. reports may not make onto anyone’s must read list for the holidays, so think of the United Nations Environment Program’s 2020 Emissions Gap survey as a warning letter from Santa, on behalf…
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…
Global temperatures soared last month, making this November the hottest ever recorded, according to a new report.
Unless temperatures dip dramatically in December, 2020 could potentially overtake…
‘It could be that the apparent stability today is hiding a future collapse’.
A rapidly warming climate will spell disaster for swathes of life on earth, including many bird species.
A new study…
Experiment put a human in one box, a dog in another and saw which the ticks preferred.
Confining a young researcher in one box and a dog in another and unleashing blood-sucking ticks to scamper…
In the southern desert of Dubai in the UAE, a new wonder is rising but it’s not another skyscraper as the region is famed for, instead, a coal-fired power plant is underway. The construction of the $…
The Earth is changing faster than at any point in modern history as a result of human-caused global heating. From the mid-19th century, when we began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, we…
Triple-digit temperatures could spark new fires just a few weeks after a record heatwave.
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-…
Bacterial infection alongside speed of temperature rise may have triggered mortality, suggests study.
High temperatures and the persistent warming of oceans have triggered profound changes in marine…
Past three months were 1.17C above 20th-century average
2020 on track to be one of five warmest years, Noaa finds
This summer was the hottest ever recorded in the northern hemisphere,…
Sea ice minimum has fallen below 4m sq km for the second time in 40 years as the climate crisis rapidly transforms the region.
Rising temperatures in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar…
Different ways of looking at the problem.
With heat waves, wildfires, intense hurricanes, and other extreme weather events in the headlines, the ravages of climate change have become undeniable and…
It was a record 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad in July, and 100 degrees above the Arctic Circle this June. Australia shattered its summer heat records as wildfires, fueled by prolonged drought,…
Add this to your already long list of 2020 oddities: Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to experience their steepest drop in modern history while the world remains on track to mark its second-…
We’re often told that some global challenges are simply too complex for the human mind to understand. This is supposed to explain not only inaction when it comes to the climate crisis, but – as with…