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Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of climate “overshoot,” scientists warned Wednesday in a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme. The report, Limiting Overshoot, projects that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming threshold identified in the Paris…

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Nepal's foreign minister and the UN climate chief on Saturday warned of the growing threat from global warming to the Himalayas, as rescuers race to find thousands missing after torrential flooding along the border with China. The US Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday near the high-altitude border was…

Researchers analyzing modern and fossil corals from the Galápagos Islands concluded that global warming has intensified El Niño cycles over the last 40 years, making them more extreme than natural variations seen during the previous millenium. Their study, published Thursday in Science, revealed sharper swings in sea surface temperatures in…

Researchers warn that a warming ocean has serious consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. (Image credit: Philip Thurston via Getty Images) Global ocean temperatures have reached a record high as El Niño injects extra heat into our already-warming world. On Saturday (Aug. 22), the daily global average sea surface…

Fragments of fossilized leaves like these helped the authors recreate the forest canopies of 56 million years ago. Credit: Dr. Regan Dunn A study finds that during the PETM, Earth’s landscapes became widely browner amid elevated atmospheric CO2, global warming, and reduced rainfall caused by volcanically driven carbon release, with…

A benchmark US report on the fast-changing state of the Arctic has been canceled. The nation’s top research body has removed a chapter on global warming from a reference manual for judges. After the mass layoffs and budget cuts of the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the…

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Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's global warming monitor said Monday. Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent and the first two months of summer have been marked by successive heatwaves, scorching…