Continuing a long-term upward trend, several climate reports released today have concluded that 2018 was among the hottest years on record. In independent analyses, NASA, NOAA and WMO have all found the past year to be dotted with broken records.
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Climate change could cause more than 50 percent of Earth’s oceans to change color by the end of the 21st century, according to a newly published study. The blues and greens of our planet’s oceans may intensify, and could serve as an indicator for the health of marine life.
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The power of ocean waves is getting a significant boost from human-made climate change, according to a recently-published study. Gaining a greater understanding of how Earth’s wave climate is changing could help authorities mitigate some of the damaging effects of global warming.
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A promising new technology developed at Canada’s University of Waterloo hinges on a special kind of powder that could be applied as a filter at power plants to gather CO2 molecules at the source, and is claimed to offer double the efficiency of the materials that are currently available.
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The soda industry is one place where you can bet there will be a massive demand for the CO2, and its about to get a little bit cleaner with Coca-Cola HBC signing a deal to use CO2 captured by Swiss startup Climeworks in its Valser mineral water.
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A new report highlighting the grim threat posed by climate change to human health has estimated that in 2015 almost 3 million lives ended prematurely as a result of ambient air pollution, and that millions more living in cities - including the elderly - are at risk from extreme temperatures.
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A new UN report that takes stock of climate action with respect to the targets outlined in the Paris Agreement has shone new light on how we continue to come up short. Among the key points are that, after stabilizing for three years, global carbon emissions are again on the rise.
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A new study has revealed that extreme heat events are happening more often across the US and Canada, while extreme cold events are on the decline. The research could one day be used to provide an early warning for such weather events.
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Putting aside the issues of should we or shouldn't we, or the prospects for success or failure, would spraying aerosols into the atmosphere in an attempt to combat climate change even be practically achievable? A new study says yes.
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The oceans are heating up at an alarming rate, and it turns out that the problem may be worse than we initially thought. A new study has used a more accurate technique to measure the rate of ocean warming, and found that it could be 60 percent higher than the current worst-case scenario suggests.
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