Global Warming

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), with Professor Francesca Pellicciotti from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) participating. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative…

The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are often used interchangeably. In the scientific literature, climate change and global warming are inextricably linked, even if they are distinct phenomena. The simplest explanation of that linkage is that global warming is the chief cause of changes in our current climate. Here,…

New research reveals a concerning pattern of rapid and extreme climate changes across the Arctic, particularly in Siberia, the Canadian Northwest Territories, and Alaska. Utilizing over three decades of geospatial data, researchers pinpointed areas where permafrost, critical to the global climate, is in jeopardy due to increased warming and drying...Read…

By Raymond Zhong and Brad Plumer New York Times · 14 Jan, 2025 09:58 PM 7 mins to read Firefighters battle the Pacific Palisades fire. The planet’s record-high average temperature last year is reflected in the conditions that primed LA for the most destructive wildfires in history. Photo / Philip…

The last two years have shattered records for global average temperatures, pushing past a critical threshold for the first time in history , according to a report released Friday by Europe’s climate monitoring agency. The findings arrive amid escalating calls from the United Nations for “ trail-blazing ” climate initiatives…

Europe's climate monitor says average global temperatures exceeded a critical warning limit for the first time, as the United Nations demands "trail-blazing" climate action. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday that six international datasets all confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record, extending a decade-long "extraordinary…

Firefighters respond to wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, California, on January 7. (Image credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images) For the first time, global warming exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels in 2024, new data has shown. That makes 2024 the hottest year on record. Earth's…

Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming thresholdRead More

On January 10, 2025, 1:00 PM The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows, despite world leaders vowing a decade ago they would try to avoid this. The European Copernicus climate service, one of the main global data providers, said on Friday…

With global warming topping the key limit of 1.5C last year, adapting to worsening climate impacts has become a “necessity”, top scientist warns Europe’s climate service said on Friday that 2024 was the hottest calendar year on record and the first in which average temperatures exceeded the key limit of…