Global Warming

Over the past few weeks and months, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has escalated dramatically. "The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week," the World Health Organization's director-general said in a media briefing on April 1. "In the next few days, we will reach…

Professor Katharine Hayhoe is one of the leading voices on climate action in North America. In the most recent episode of her Global Weirding webseries — the second in a two-part series — she discusses the impact on and relationship between global warming and human action in the wake of…

View Slideshow In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion made of locally sourced wood and recycled plastic. Created to raise awareness on the issue of polar ice melt, the temporary installation was the work of Bulot+Collins, an international architecture…

Branching staghorn coral, acropora, is completely bleached during the 2017 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Picture was taken on Pixie Reef. Brett Monroe Garner / Moment / Getty Images The Great Barrier Reef, a natural wonder that once teemed with life, just experienced a major coral bleaching…

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) plans to restart 737 MAX production by May, ending a months-long halt triggered by a safety ban on its best-selling jet after fatal crashes, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Boeing’s planning hinges on the scale of disruptions from the fast spreading…

When Christiana Figueres took the reins of the United Nations’ international climate negotiations in 2010, hopes were not high that the world would come together to forge an agreement to tackle global warming—especially after talks had fallen apart in Copenhagen the previous year. In fact, when she was asked at…

Image copyright Sterling Caviar Image caption Sturgeon farmed at Sterling Caviar Overfishing has depleted numbers of wild fish, and fish farms meet much of the growing demand. Could we one day be eating "fish" grown from cells in a factory, as a number of start-ups are planning?Business is booming says…

Small levels of global warming can increase the likelihood of extreme events, new research warns. That’s prompting scientists to question how accurately disasters in the recent past can be used to predict extreme events today. A study published Wednesday in Science Advances suggests that some research attributing climate change to individual disasters has underestimated…

Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are dominant. In addition, they can identify toxic algal blooms and assess the effects of global warming on marine plankton, allowing them to draw…

A new Stanford study reveals that a common scientific approach of predicting the likelihood of future extreme weather events by analyzing how frequently they occurred in the past can lead to significant underestimates -- with potentially significant consequences for people's lives. Stanford climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh found that predictions that…