Global Warming

We're set to swelter like never before, as a perfect storm of natural and manmade conditions unite to deliver a 98% chance of the hottest 12 months on record within the next five years, according to a damning new report from the WMO.

Global warming has caused many large whales to move from warmer waters, increasing the risk of being struck by ships. Researchers have used existing fiber-optic cables to track fin whales in real time, which may reduce the incidence of ship strikes.

The IPCC has released its latest report, pulling together the findings of previous reports to provide a more complete picture of how human-caused climate change continues to affect the planet and what we need to do to address it.

The health benefits of a meat-based versus a plant-based diet are often hotly debated. A new study adds another checkmark to the plant-based column though, as it loops in the environmental impacts of choosing paleo or keto diets over veganism.

Researchers have identified 27 feedback loops demonstrating how one effect of climbing temperatures leads to events that further reinforce global warming and the initial event itself. The findings make immediate climate action even more crucial.

Atmospheric dust can both cool and warm our planet. A new study shows that this dust could be masking the true impact of greenhouse gasses on climate change, and that a shift in the dust quantity could lead to a warming spike.

In Hokkaido, Japan's winter months, harmless underwater algae balls are protected from death by an ice shield. That shield is expected to thin thanks to global warming, causing the balls to join the list of species threatened by climate change.

Scientists tracking climate change have found Europe is seeing temperatures increase at more than twice the global average, and is experiencing a rate of warming higher than any continent on the planet.

A new United Nations report has delved into the widening gap between our aspirations in fighting climate change and the reality of the situation, and reinforced the notion that we are very much headed in the wrong direction.

Even slight adjustments to how we make cement and concrete can have a big impact on their environmental footprint, and as research continues to show, scientists working in this space are not short of ideas.

Scientists studying the lake systems of the Arctic lowlands have made a surprising discovery, tapping into satellite data to find that these bodies of water are drying up and vanishing much faster than predicted.

Glaciologists studying the seasonal growth and loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet have concluded that even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today, it would shed enough mass to cause global sea levels to rise by almost a foot, at a minimum.