Global Warming

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 …

WASHINGTON (AP) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are teaming up on a measure that would designate climate change as an emergency, and they have won early support from one of Sanders' fellow Democratic presidential candida…

Andrew Rypel, a professor of wildlife, fish and conservation biology at the University of California, Davis with a walleye he caught in Sanford Lake, Wisconsin.  (Photo: Courtesy Andrew Rypel) Global warming is putting lake fish in hot water, with worrisome…

Jeffrey Sachs is a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author; view more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)For the second time in two weeks, Presiden…

Global warming: How important is the rainforest in limiting global warming?

From the school strikes for climate, to Extinction Rebellion protests and calls for a Green New Deal, citizens around the world are putting pressure on their governments to prevent global warming more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. In the U.K., these …