Cleaning the air could accelerate global warming, and scientists are testing cloud brightening to cool the planet ...

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

A new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.

Planetary warming has significantly accelerated over the past 10 years, with temperatures rising at a higher rate since 2015 than in any previous decade on record, a new study showed. The Earth warmed ...

Tipping points are thresholds within key Earth systems beyond which lasting changes to the environment occur. Breaching a tipping point kicks off a feedback loop that sends systems into a different ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

Scientists have long warned that the planet is warming. Now, new research suggests it may be warming faster than previously understood. A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

Earth Day began 56 years ago on this date, April 22, 1970, in the United States. The movement was spearheaded by student activist Denis Hayes who was recruited by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Wilson to ...