Given record-setting heat waves around the world in recent years, an international team of researchers led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz investigated if the rate of global warming has increased ...

CLIMATEWIRE | One study after another is coming to the same conclusion about the rapidly warming Arctic: It’s heating up a lot faster than earlier research suggested. The latest figures indicate that ...

New research suggests we have just six years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and two decades to keep temperatures below the 2 C threshold in the Paris Agreement. When you purchase ...

Nights have been warming much faster than the days, observations from the last fifty years have shown. Analysis of the causes of this more rapid warming at night shows that this is likely to continue ...

The world’s oceans are running a fever—sea surface temperatures have been record-breakingly hot in the past few months. Scientists think a looming El Niño weather pattern may be partially to blame, ...

The global warming “hiatus,” a controversy that spawned congressional hearings and thousands of skeptical blog posts before being curbed last year, is back. The “hiatus” refers to the observation that ...

In April 1970, Americans celebrated the first Earth Day, an event meant to heighten public awareness of of environmental protection. Since then, humanity has dumped an enormous amount of heat-trapping ...