Global Warming

On balance, the planets forests continue to shrink at an alarming rate, but reforestation campaigns have picked up momentum around the world, recognized as a powerful tool to fight climate change, habitat loss and erosion. After losing much of its forest cove…

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.…

With global warming increases temperatures everywhere a portable air conditioner seems like a good idea. Now Sony has unveiled a new model that fits right in your pocket. Called the Reon Pocket, the innovative portable air conditioner is from the company's s…

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…

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Hawaiis Keck telescopes pierce the sky with lasers that help to correct for atmospheric blurring. A new analysis of data from Keck and other observatories l…

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Skeptics of human-caused climate change have often relied on a favorite argument involving the planet’s natural climate cycles. Earth experienced plenty of natural warming and cooling phases long before humans ever began pumping greenhouse gases into the atmo…

Skeptics of human-caused climate change have often relied on a favorite argument involving the planet’s natural climate cycles. Earth experienced plenty of natural warming and cooling phases long before humans ever began pumping greenhouse gases into the atmo…

Image copyrightGetty Images The speed and extent of current global heating exceeds any similar event in the past 2,000 years, researchers say. They show that famous historic events like the "Little Ice Age" don't compare with the scale of warming seen over…

It is getting hotter everywhere at the same time ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty By Adam Vaughan The global warming caused by humanity since the industrial revolution has been found to be without parallel in the past two thousand years, in the latest blow to a c…