Global Warming

The Arctic's oldest, most robust sea ice has devolved into a pathetic shell of its once-grand self. A new two-minute video from the American Geophysical Union, a leading earth sciences organization, depicts the dramatic shrinking of the toughest Arctic sea i…

Human-induced climate change has origins far earlier than commonly assumed, according to a study published in the journal Science. Archeological evidence collected around the world suggests human activity began warming the global climate about 5,000 years ag…

Chris McNeil has journeyed to Alaska's sprawling Taku Glacier at least once a year for the last decade. At 259 square miles, it's larger than Chicago. "You can see across this thing for days," said McNeil, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey. For de…

NASA scientists, who once engineered spaceships that allowed humans to explore the dusty moon, have also provided evidence, for decades, that humans are unequivocally warming Earth. This warming ushered in by the highest atmospheric concentrations of heat-tr…

Its not just out in the bush, because many people in cities are right on that edge, said Lesley Hughes, a biology professor at Macquarie University who works with the Climate Council of Australia. Everybody loves to live in the bush and around the bush its be…

Image copyrightGetty Images Cutting the speed of ships has huge benefits for humans, nature and the climate, according to a new report. A 20% reduction would cut greenhouse gases but also curb pollutants that damage human health such as black carbon and ni…

Collins Dictionary, publishing dictionaries now for two centuries, announced its 2019 "word of the year" on Thursday. It's a term whose usage increased by a whopping 100-fold between 2018 and 2019, according to Collins' lexicographers, and since 2013 has bee…

October is a time for pumpkin spice lattes, scarvesand record-breaking heat. Yup, October 2019 was the hottest October ever documented, but cmon, does that surprise anyone anymore? The Copernicus Union Climate Change Service managed by the European Union ann…

Cars and motorcycles wade through a flood caused by rising sea level in Central Java, Indonesia, on Feb. 2, 2018.  Getty Images Even if countries around the world stick to the carbon emission pledges of the current Paris Agreement, sea levels will continue …

If your kid has a wide range of interestsand a short attention spantheyll probably be into Triviatopia, a series of educational animated videos on YouTube about everything from science, history and art to technology and the environment. Each video is just ov…