While carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the best known greenhouse gas, several others, including methane and nitrous oxide, are also driving global warming and altering the Earth's climate. Atmospheric ...

Multilateral Banks Are Key to Financing the Fight Against Global Warming. Here Is How They Work As climate change leads to a seemingly endless stream of weather disasters around the world ...

2024 is now almost certain to become the first year on record when average temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, breaching the threshold set by the Paris Agreement. “At this ...

Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement, which scientists said would prevent cascading and worsening impacts ...

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to ...

Crops, including chestnuts, apples and cherries have been hit. Scientists say extreme weather linked to global warming could spell bad news for its aquaculture sector too. A series of heatwaves ...

Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They’re now looking at a new and unlikely place — inside your home. A group called ...

Global warming caused by humans might be closer to a crucial climate threshold than current estimates suggest. A study 1 of Antarctic ice cores argues that, in 2023, human-driven warming reached 1 ...

A newly proposed method for calculating the global temperature suggests that countries may have already failed their main climate goal: to limit warming to below 1.5C. Scientists using the method ...

Over 12 days, world leaders and thousands of delegates will try to negotiate ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, amid warnings that efforts to limit global warming are way off track. Henry ...

The world is on track for a 'catastrophic' 3.1°C of global warming by the end of this century, the UN has warned. In its annual report on the emission cuts needed to limit global warming to 1.5 ...