Global Warming

Last year was the hottest on record, but global warming isn’t just overheating the planet. It’s killing workers.  Now a new analysis of the impact of state-implemented outdoor heat standards on worker deaths adds to the growing body of scientific research showing that requiring employers to take simple precautions to…

Corals build their skeletons out of calcium carbonate, emitting carbon dioxide as a by-product Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy The extent of coral reefs worldwide has played a key role in Earth’s climate in the past 250 million years – but not in the way you might expect. Coral reefs are net producers…

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea finds that global warming…

A new study has found that the trunks of trees in the Amazon have become thicker in recent decades — an unexpected sign of the rainforest’s resilience in response to record-high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Nearly 100 scientists involved in the study have stated that old-growth forests in…

Climate campaigners march on the sidelines of the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, we should be seeing a massive ratcheting up of climate action. Instead, the past four years have seen almost no progress – including at the…

Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aims to execute actions on climate change By Ruqia Shahid November 23, 2025 COP30: Five key insights from climate summit The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil was characterized by deep divisions, and aimed to prevent and deal with global warming. Primarily,…

(Bloomberg) -- Almost 200 nations gathered in Brazil for the United Nations’ annual climate summit capped two weeks of fraught negotiations with an agreement Saturday on new efforts to help guide their transition away from the fossil fuels driving global warming. However, the accord dodged an explicit mention of the…

World Brazil's COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. 'Failed agreement' made under 'climate denialism,' says Colombian negotiator Thomson Reuters · Posted: Nov 22, 2025 12:42…

BELEM, Brazil - Brazil's COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finance for poor nations coping with global warming but that omitted any mention of the fossil fuels driving it. In securing the accord, Brazil hoped to demonstrate global unity in addressing climate change…

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet.…