The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C ...

In today’s world, global warming and socio-geopolitical conflicts have become dangerously intertwined. The continuous rise in ...

In a startling revelation, recent research has shown that Earth’s energy imbalance—the difference between the heat Earth ...

After 12 consecutive months with temperatures 1.5 C above the 1850-1900 average, Earth’s temperature has now fallen slightly.

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...

Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than some researchers had hoped, meaning the world will ...

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it would be without them.

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real ...

Summer-only warming experiments underestimate climate change effects on plants compared to year-round temperature increases.

The Paris target is based on very strong scientific evidence that the impacts of climate change would be far greater at 2C of ...