Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to ...

Planet Earth is living on borrowed time, a new global report reveals. The world must stop burning fossil fuels now and take ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres made a stark declaration: our planet is no longer experiencing just global warming, but has entered a new, more dangerous phase of global boiling. With July 2023 ...

Two terms – climate change and global warming – point to the same existential threat: Global temperatures have risen dramatically in about the past 150 years and scientists say they're on pace ...

From record-breaking heat waves and wildfires to intensified storms and coastal flooding, the effects of climate change are ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has defined global warming as "an increase in combined surface air and sea surface temperatures averaged over the globe and over a 30-year period." ...

Climate change is any long-term shift in average weather patterns. Climate change has occurred many times in Earth's history, and for many different reasons. The changes in global temperature and ...

Definitions to know: Is climate change the same thing as global warming? Effects of climate change: How climate change disrupts our daily life and fuels disasters. Latest news: Greenland sees ...

In 2021, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) determined a carbon budget of 500 billion metric tons would keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius until mid-2032.

Researchers have quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases. A collection of eight studies -- all ...