If you're anything like me, you've withheld final judgment on the urgency of the global warming "crisis," especially when the Earth has a long history of climate change and we've just experienced a ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event—known as the Permian-Triassic Mass ...

Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.26 C per decade -- the highest rate since records began, according to new research by over 50 leading international scientists. The second annual ...

The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, according to authors of the latest ...

Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet. By Hiroko Tabuchi In the late 1970s, ...

With scorching heat and raging wildfires in the West and torrential downpours and massive flooding in the East, global warming is not just about a gentle sea rise any more. These tragic consequences ...

Add CO2 to the atmosphere and the climate will get warmer — that much is well established. But climate change and carbon aren’t in a one-to-one relationship. If they were, climate modeling would be a ...

This Climate Matters analysis is based on open-access data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). See Methodology for details. Show Your Stripes on June 21 Show Your Stripes ...