Global Warming

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…

An environmental vicious circle is taking hold in Russia and other parts of the Arctic as permafrost the frozen ground beneath a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere and almost 20% of Earths landmass thaws. Rising temperatures are causing the ice that binds s…

Two years ago, Greenland lit ablaze. It was weird, and a harbinger of things to come on our changing planet. It just didnt seem like they would come again so soon. Satellites spotted another wildfire in western Greenland this week. The blaze first showed up …

Nicole Prause is a sex researcher who wanted to design a gender-neutral orgasm-measuring tool that would fit in the anus and detect and measure pelvic contractions but all the buttplugs she tried to modify ("We ordered like 20 of these butt plugs off Amazon, …

On June 26, as a potent  heat wave settled over Europe, atmospheric scientist Patrik Winiger also settled into his seat aboard a high-speed electric train traveling from Zurich to Amsterdam. The heat, which would soon topple temperature records across the con…

(CNN)In 2050, London's climate will feel more like Barcelona's, according to a new climate change study. If this sounds like a pleasant warming -- think again. London could be facing severe drought, as Barcelona did in 2008, when it nearly ran out of drinkin…

Melting ice sheets in the Antarctic, particularly one of the largest and unstable glaciers in the region, could significantly accelerate global sea level rise, according to a new report. The climate scientists who measured likely outcomes of glacial melting …