Global Warming

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age drew to a close, global temperatures climbed, and the early Holocene began. During this period of warming, human communities gradually shifted toward more permanent settlements...Read More

COP30 in Belém unfolded against a turbulent geopolitical backdrop and at a moment when global climate signals have never been clearer: warming is accelerating, impacts are intensifying, and the window to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is closing fast. While negotiators assembled a sprawling ‘COP30 package’...Read More

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Southeast Asia is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard. Deaths have topped 1,400 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand , with more than 1,000 still missing in floods and…

Last year was the hottest on record, but global warming isn’t just overheating the planet. It’s killing workers.  Now a new analysis of the impact of state-implemented outdoor heat standards on worker deaths adds to the growing body of scientific research showing that requiring employers to take simple precautions to…

Corals build their skeletons out of calcium carbonate, emitting carbon dioxide as a by-product Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy The extent of coral reefs worldwide has played a key role in Earth’s climate in the past 250 million years – but not in the way you might expect. Coral reefs are net producers…

Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from researchers at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in the Republic of Korea finds that global warming…

A new study has found that the trunks of trees in the Amazon have become thicker in recent decades — an unexpected sign of the rainforest’s resilience in response to record-high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Nearly 100 scientists involved in the study have stated that old-growth forests in…

Climate campaigners march on the sidelines of the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images Ten years on from the Paris Agreement, we should be seeing a massive ratcheting up of climate action. Instead, the past four years have seen almost no progress – including at the…

Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aims to execute actions on climate change By Ruqia Shahid November 23, 2025 COP30: Five key insights from climate summit The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belem, Brazil was characterized by deep divisions, and aimed to prevent and deal with global warming. Primarily,…