Six scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research found extreme rain storms in America could increase by 400% due to climate change.
Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum and failed to dip below 400 ppm.
What if I told you the world could take one action this year that would shave off a half a degree Celsius of warming from our overheating planet? Leaders have a chance when they meet in Rwanda next month to secure a phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
Humanity is about to deepen its understanding of Earth's winds. The European Space Agency has secured a rocket launch deal for its wind-tracking Aeolus satellite, which is now expected to enter orbit before the end of 2017.
For the first time in 4 million years, carbon dioxide concentrations cleared 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole. It's the last climate-monitoring spot on Earth to pass the historic milestone.
Eastern Canada's black spruce forests are one of the largest untamed wilderness areas on Earth. And in refreshingly optimistic news, parts of this ecosystem are expected to flourish in a warmer world.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo said he would halt the expansion of the mining and palm oil industries, likely this year, to curb rainforest deforestation.
The rate of carbon emissions is higher than at any time in fossil records stretching back 66 million years to the end of the age of the dinosaurs, a new study finds.
A United States senator is seeking to pass legislation in California that would expose fossil fuel companies to investigations that could hold them accountable for purposely misleading the public over the scientific evidence for climate change.
The impact humans have made on Earth in terms of how we produce and consume resources has formed a 'striking new pattern' in the planet's global energy flow, according to researchers.
China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and conversion to farmland, has become a story of recovery, according to the first independent verification.
China released its thirteenth five-year plan on Saturday, pledging to cut the carbon intensity of its economy to 18% below current levels by 2020, a target that is likely to guide the CO2 cap in its national emissions trading scheme.
Regulations that limit heavy metal pollution from oil- and coal-fired power plants will continue to be enforced by the EPA — at least for now — thanks to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Leonardo DiCaprio has won an Academy Award for best actor for his role as a betrayed 19th century frontiersman in The Revenant. The actor used his acceptance speech to warn about the effects of global warming, saying ‘Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take this night for granted’
The global temperature rise must be kept below +2°C by the end of the century to avoid catastrophic climate change.
