Global Warming

Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) wants action from the UK government to allow businesses in its sector to access finance to help them through the Covid-19 crisisClaims by oil and gas companies that they are curbing their carbon emissions in line with net zero targets are overstated, according to a…

In the hierarchy of allegories for human society, the 1,001-car train Snowpiercer is up there with the Tower of Babel. Introduced in a 1980s French comic, then revived in Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film and now a TNT drama, both titled Snowpiercer, it carries the only survivors of an ice age…

An example of boreal peatlands and forest in Canada's Northwest Territories. Credit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers at Canada's McMaster University, has uncovered new information about the distinct effects of climate change on boreal forests and peatlands, which threaten to worsen wildfires…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will live in places with average temperatures of 29C More than three billion people will be living in places with "near un-liveable" temperatures by 2070, according to a new study. Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall,…

Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans is manipulative, and in many ways an exercise in lazy documentary making. The film is rife with out-of-date facts and figures about the efficacy of solar and wind power. And it’s so strong on gloom that it ignores many potential solutions to the world’s…

A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically high. In a letter scheduled for publication April 30 in the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers…

Significant quantities of carbon and trace elements are flowing across the central Arctic Ocean under the sea ice via freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments, according to a new study. “This research is critical to understanding the current and future health of the Arctic Ocean, which is warming…

A startling new analysis of climate models, made by scientists at Montreal’s McGill University and elsewhere, has made a grim prediction — within decades, the Arctic Ocean will hold practically no summer ice at all.Science Alert reports that the new study predicts the stunning change will have happened even before…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Hurricanes moving slowly over an area can cause more damage than faster-moving storms, because the longer a storm lingers, the more time it has to pound an area with storm winds and drop huge volumes of rain, leading to flooding. The extraordinary damage caused by storms…

It's the third-largest barrier reef in the world. At the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida, researchers have been actively studying ways to save coral reefs from global warming. Now a scientific breakthrough—the first of its kind in history—could save the third largest coral reef in the world. The aquarium successfully…