Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...

New assessment warns area the size of the USA will become too hot during extreme heat events for even healthy young humans to maintain a safe body temperature if we hit 2 degrees Celsuis above ...

An international group of scientists, led by King's College London, has revealed how continued global warming will lead to ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.

Half a degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth that is 'too hot for humans’ - Unsurvivable heat thresholds ...

Researchers found that reduced low-cloud cover over land slightly mitigates global warming, although temperatures continue to ...

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

Explore the debate on climate change causes: human activities vs. natural variability. Discover the latest data, scientific ...

James Hansen, a former Nasa scientist now at Columbia University, said the record temperatures of the past two years were the ...

Rising global temperatures may render extensive regions of the planet too hot for human survival over the coming decades.