Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New satellite data reveal Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more solar energy than the South, threatening to disrupt global ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...

A closer look at Earth’s history shows that melting ice sheets temporarily increased stratification in the Southern Ocean.

Tipping points are thresholds within key Earth systems beyond which lasting changes to the environment occur. Breaching a tipping point kicks off a feedback loop that sends systems into a different ...

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...

One of the most pressing questions facing climate scientists, and the world at large, is whether human-caused global warming could trigger changes in the climate system that will radically reshape the ...

If you think of Earth’s climate system as a backyard swing that’s been gently swaying for millennia, then human-caused global warming is like a sudden shove strong enough to disrupt the usual arc and ...

Reducing air pollution has paradoxically accelerated global warming by removing sunlight-reflecting particles, a phenomenon akin to a mild “termination shock.” Large-scale geoengineering schemes, such ...

A new study by UC Davis and Chinese researchers shows how extraterrestrial forces move Earth's climate into a glacial phase both over the last 34 million years and 300 million years. Recent rapid ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...