The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios, and global emissions may be about to peak. But we’re by no means out of danger Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century.

In short, the global warming induced by increased greenhouse gases changes the major wind systems on Earth. This in turn ...

In the 19th century, the sky already bore the marks of our industrial era. Long before gasoline engines, the atmosphere was ...

The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even ...

The story so far: A global mean temperature rise of 2ºC is enshrined in the Paris Agreement as a safe level of global warming by 2100 with respect to the pre-industrial baseline. This threshold ...

A dire new report suggests time is almost up to avoid breaching the 1.5 °C warming limit—and the consequences could reshape ...

The Earth, climate scientists worry, may be reaching a tipping point, especially as the Trump administration works to roll ...

Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

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 ...

A new study with ETH Zurich 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 ...

Scientists say greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal have already locked in enough global warming to doom many of the world's glaciers.