Global Warming

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in tropical forests, a finding that could have major implications for carbon storage and tropical biodiversity under future global warming scenarios. That’s according to a recently published paper, which determines that short-lived but…

Vanuatu’s Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu (centre) delivers a speech as he attends a demonstration ahead of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) session tasked with issuing the first Advisory Opinion (AO) on States’ legal obligations to address climate change, in The Hague on July 23, 2025. — AFP pic…

WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected. It’s an important question because the bees are critical to the fruit, vegetables, nuts and other foods that…

Even as the planet warms, parts of the United States can still be hit with brutally cold winter weather—and scientists now have a clearer idea of why. A team of researchers has identified two distinct patterns within the polar vortex, a swirling mass of frigid air located high in the…

Wildfires are expected to become more frequent and severe as global temperatures rise COSTAS METAXAKIS/AFP via Getty Images If you told a child to stay “well away” from a cliff edge, how close to the edge could they creep before you started shouting for them to turn back? That is…

A traffic jam in Beijing in China, where air pollution has drastically reduced. Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock Published: July 14, 2025 11.02am CEST Authors Laura Wilcox Professor, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading Bjørn H. Samset Senior Researcher in Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Center for International Climate and Environment…

For the past five years, a red digital clock the size of a bus, attached to a building in New York City’s Union Square, has been counting down to zero. Climate Clock, the group that installed it, describes the time that remains—about four years—as “the most important number in the…

Company's carbon credits raise questions about unproven ocean technology to fight global warmingRead More

(Image credit: Edu Hawkins/Redferns/Getty Images) One of the UK’s cultural institutions, the annual music extravaganza that is Glastonbury Festival, has just kicked off – and while tents have been pitched, flower crowns assembled, and the artists are up and running showcasing their wares on the highly coveted stages, The Pretenders’…

Rock on: how crushed stone could help fight climate change By Sara HUSSEIN Bangkok (AFP) June 24, 2025 From sugar plantations in Brazil to tea estates in India, crushed rock is being sprinkled across large stretches of farmland globally in a novel bid to combat climate change. The technique is…