A new generation of climate scenarios has set aside RCP8.5, which projected a nearly 5°C rise in global temperatures by 2100.

The volcano erupted in January 2022 with a force hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, sending ash, ...

For decades, Earth’s forests, wetlands and soils quietly mopped up a huge share of the carbon pollution from cars, power plants and factories. Now that natural brake on global warming is faltering ...

Rising global emissions of hydrogen over the past three decades have added to the planet's warming temperatures and amplified the impact of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases, according ...

Scientists have struggled to explain the rapid acceleration of global warming over the past 15 years, with temperatures now regularly breaking records. It is “among the biggest questions in climate ...

Despite rapid progress in clean energy and electric vehicles, the world is still warming faster than ever. The good news is that we already have powerful ways to reduce the warming rate – if ...

Governor Schwarzenegger received a long-awaited staff report today on his goal of cutting global-warming gases back to 1990 levels in the next 14 years. The move would push California ahead of the ...

While global warming is still a threat, the decision to back away from a worst-case outlook raises questions about whether ...

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (sometimes referred to as COP30) is taking place in Brazil. Amid all the talk with politicians, policy experts and scientists, it’s worth reminding ...

The new refrigerants called hydrofluoroolefins, or HFOs, are quickly replacing older hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, in the USA and Europe as they are believed to have zero ozone depletion potential. The ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...