Global Warming

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…

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…