Global Warming

Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, a situation with many potential consequences including an acceleration of warming due to a decrease in albedo. Pedersen and Christensen used a suite of climate models to study how sea ice loss in various reg…

Different terms are used for a storm depending on where it forms. In the Atlantic, tropical cyclones are called hurricanes, which are most likely to occur after surface temperatures peak and large amounts of moisture are already in the atmosphere. That season…

A new climate report, Volume II of the National Climate Assessment, says that the effects of global warming are intensifying and getting costlier.

He also criticized the Mexico City agreement, a federal policy that bars foreign aid to any organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. Because many groups that provide birth control and other services also perform…

He also criticized the Mexico City agreement, a federal policy that bars foreign aid to any organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. Because many groups that provide birth control and other services also perform…

Flying low along a mountain ridge in central Argentina, Clayton Eveland slaloms right and left, steering the plane through one cloud after another, each one turning the cockpit windshield briefly white. Reaching the end of the range, he wheels around and take…

The DNC killed the climate debate. But on Wednesday night 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls will still have the chance to show their climate savvy in a less-heated environment. Each candidate will take the stage, one by one, during CNN's 7-hour climate cris…

Colleagues said that Professor Weitzman had been despondent after he did not win the Nobel, and that his mental state worsened in the spring, when, for the first time in his career, a fellow economist pointed out a mistake in a completed but unpublished paper…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday pointed to global warming as a major cause of Hurricane Dorian, which has pummeled the Bahamas with devastating winds and massive flooding and is slowly churning toward the coast of Florida. In a tweet, the Democratic p…

Mr. Castros plan, also released Tuesday, includes several ideas either directly adopted from or developed in consultation with Mr. Inslee, such as a plan to replace all coal-fired power generation with zero-emissions sources by 2030, and a proposal to marshal…