56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and ...

If you think that global warming is some far-off problem for future generations to worry about, consider what George Somero has to say. As acting director of Stanford`s Hopkins Marine Station, Somero ...

Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference, the scientists who conducted the study ...

Tropical rainforests, considered the lungs of the Earth for their capacity to work as major carbon cleansers, are under threat. A recent study by scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences ...

This underwater photo taken on April 5, 2024, shows bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, 270 kilometres (170 miles) north of the ...

It was one of the biggest climate change questions of the early 2000s: Had the planet’s rising fever stalled, even as humans pumped more heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere? By the turn of the ...

Tropical marine low clouds play a crucial role in regulating Earth's climate. However, whether they mitigate or exacerbate global warming has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers have developed a ...

With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this ye ...

Global warming is turning Greenland green. Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades have been replaced by wetlands, shrub vegetation and areas of barren rock ...

Our Sun is a variable star. Astronomers know that its bolometric magnitude, its total energy output, is slowly increasing. At most, our planet has about 1 billion years left until the oceans will boil ...

Wim Carton receives funding for his work on carbon removal from the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), the Swedish Energy Agency, the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg ...