Global Warming

Fifty miles due north of Venezuela and 30 miles east of Curaçao is the uplifted coral reef island of Bonaire. Locals rightfully boast, of their natural treasures, including pink flamingos, iguanas on desert flatlands, a sea turtle nursery, large schools of ma…

Day two centered on the coding and preparation for the pitch, which occurred at the end of the day.  We do discuss what we want to do for the world and how to save it, but we dont usually pitch like this, says Merelis Peralta, a Code Next student, whose…

Data from 2016 pegs it as the hottest year since recording began way back in 1880. Carbon dioxide levels continue to sit at historical highs, and last year the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that humanity has just 12 years to limit warmin…

Iceland is home to more than 400 glaciers, but that number no longer includes Okjökull, a glacier that scientists say was "killed" by climate change. One hundred years ago, the glacier covered 15 square kilometers (5.8 square miles) of Ok Mountain, a shield v…

Sometimes the headline says it all. This is one of those cases, folks. Weve never recorded a hotter month on Earth than the one we just lived through, according to preliminary data kept by the European Unions Copernicus Climate Change Program. Heat records f…

“In just one day,” she told me, “it burned everything away.” Nina Wells, a retired Environmental Specialist with the New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau, has over 20 years of experience coping with fires and drought. She was descri…

DETROIT—Democrats running for president expanded their attacks last night about insufficient climate action beyond the usual targets of President Trump and oil companies. They took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden. For the second night in a row, 10 Dem…

In June, I delivered a keynote presentation on Australias vulnerability to climate change and our policy challenges at the annual meeting of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the main conference for those working in the climate science …

The global climate is changing faster now than it has at any point in the past 2,000 years. That's the conclusion of a trio of papers published July 24 in the journals Nature and Nature Geoscience that examined the global climate over the past two millennia.…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Arctic fires are common but the intensity of these makes them unusual Wildfires are ravaging the Arctic "at unprecedented levels", a senior scientist has warned. Large areas of Siberia, northern Scandinavia, Alask…