The frequency of large-scale tornado outbreaks is increasing in the United States, particularly when it comes to the most extreme events, according to new research.
Geoengineering is one of those things that sounds like maybe a good idea on paper but could also go horribly wrong.
Using satellites and supercomputers, NASA scientists have recreated a year in the life of CO2.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released its annual "Arctic Report Card," a comprehensive overview of what's happening at our planet's North Pole.
Methane is many times more potent than carbon dioxide, but it's also more difficult to capture.
Six scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research found extreme rain storms in America could increase by 400% due to climate change.
Warming could drive the loss of at least 55 trillion kilograms of carbon from the soil by mid-century, or about 17% more than the projected emissions due to human-related activities during that period.
Abnormally high water temperatures caused by you-know-what are being blamed for the worst coral die-off ever recorded along Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Representatives from 47 of the world's most disadvantaged nations have pledged to generate all their future energy needs from renewables.
"Humanity will look back on Nov. 4, 2016, as the day that countries of the world shut the door on inevitable climate disaster," UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa and Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said in a joint statement.
Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
New study says that unless nations ramp up their carbon-reduction pledges before 2020, it will be nearly impossible to keep warming to 2 degrees.
A new study shows that three of the Amundsen sea’s frozen gateways are melting away faster than we realised, raising the spectre of an ice sheet collapse that could trigger a metre of global sea level rise.
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations having reached 400 ppm 2015 and with no signs of them abating in 2016 the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that "a new era of climate change reality" is upon us.
United Nations Environment Programme have welcomed the landmark deal struck today by nearly 200 countries to reduce the emissions of potent chemicals used in air conditioners and refrigerators.
