Global Warming

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…

The history of Earths climate is punctuated by a succession of named intervals associated with prolonged shifts to warmer, colder, wetter or drier conditions. During the Common Era (the past 2,000 years), the two best-known such climate epochs are the Little …

The history of Earths climate is punctuated by a succession of named intervals associated with prolonged shifts to warmer, colder, wetter or drier conditions. During the Common Era (the past 2,000 years), the two best-known such climate epochs are the Little …

Global warming may have played a pivotal role in the emergence of Candida auris, according to a new study published in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. C. auris, which is often multi-drug resistant and is a serious public…

A decade without any global warming is more likely to happen if the climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions, new research has revealed.A team of scientists from the University of Exeter and the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in the UK has condu…

Its not just the eastern part of the U.S. roasting this week. Much of the planet is on a heat bender, including the northernmost inhabited place on Earth. Alert, Canada cracked 70 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time ever recorded this week. While its not t…

Weve reached the what if we just make it snow a lot to save Antarctics ice sheets phase of our time on Earth. Good job, everyone. What sounds like a discussion climate scientists would have after eating a bunch of pot brownies is actually the premise of a ne…

Montreal (AFP) - Temperatures hit a record 69.8 degrees Fahrenheit in Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited spot on the planet less than 600 miles from the North Pole, the Canadian meteorology service said Tuesday. "It's quite phenomenal as a statist…