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

A new way to measure the temperatures of objects by studying the effect of their black-body radiation on Rydberg atoms has ...

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

Back in 1824, a French physicist named Joseph Fourier made a breakthrough that would fundamentally change our understanding of how Earth's atmosphere works. He discovered the greenhouse effect, which ...

The wild January weather across the US is expected to continue this week with forecasts for heavy rain in southern states, after a surge of Arctic air that spilled southward and delivered rare record ...

As Democrats and progressives reach the acceptance phase of their grief, there is less uniformity in cooperating with the next Trump administration.

The dust jacket of an elementary school book, The New Ice Age by Henry Gilfond (1978), displayed six large thermometers lined ... scare that began with the “greenhouse effect” morph into ...

Sea levels are rising and oceans are becoming warmer. Longer, more intense droughts threaten crops, wildlife and freshwater supplies. From polar bears in the Arctic to marine turtles off the coast of ...

Lake-effect snow brings heavy snowfall to some parts of North America Lake-effect snow is most common around the Great Lakes region in the US and Canada during late autumn and winter. It can lead ...

It is already well known that oceans absorb 90% of the extra heat trapped on Earth because of the higher concentrations of greenhouse ... when the thermometers hit 17.16 degrees Celsius.

“The primary reason for these record temperatures is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the ... heat in the system that has a cascading effect on other parts of the system.