The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level, another record.

Scientists have been working to determine what triggered this sudden surge in global warming. They considered anthropogenic ...

While carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the best known greenhouse gas, several others, including methane and nitrous oxide, are also driving global warming and altering the Earth's climate. The changes ...

Arctic's second warmest year since 1900. The effects are impacting ecosystems, wildlife, and Indigenous communities ...

Mar. 27, 2024 — A global shift to a healthier, more sustainable diet could be a huge lever to limit global warming to 1.5 C, researchers find. The resulting reduction of greenhouse gas emissions ...

Climate change is heating up the ocean and marine species are starting to migrate in search of cooler water. This could throw ...

As wildfires increase and hotter temperatures melt long-frozen ground, the region is releasing greenhouse gases into the ...

In an era when greenhouse gas emissions must decline to reduce global warming, in 2020 and 2021 nitrous oxide spewed into the atmosphere at a faster rate than at any other time in history, the study ...

Biden said the new goal — which supersedes a previous plan to cut carbon emissions at least in half by 2030 — keeps the ...