Global Warming

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…

Earlier this year, UK tabloid The Daily Mail, famous for its incompetent fakery, published a bombshell article claiming “World leaders duped by manipulated global warming data”. This article was hailed by conservative media from Breitbart to The National Revi…

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 …

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…