Renewable energy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that climate ...

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

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

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 ...

Long-term climate warming is causing a bleaching effect in a key Arctic lichen species, according to new research led by researchers in the School of GeoSciences and British Antarctic Survey. Their ...

The Loop Current often bulges out in the northern Gulf of Mexico, where it sometimes sheds a clockwise-rotating ring of warm ...

To mitigate global warming, going after methane emissions, too, would be good ...

The key to the intensity of a coming El Niño lies hundreds of feet down in the Pacific Ocean. That’s where a freight train of record-warm water is chugging along. This train, called a Kelvin wave, is ...

Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives in the waterways, a new study shows.

The administration is delaying a phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons, potent planet-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and ...