Climate

Climate change may also be to blame for three bitter winters that have left more than 400 dead

If you've been thinking our world is more green than frozen these days, you're right. A recent study has found that spring is in arriving earlier -- and autumn later -- in the suburbs of Baltimore and Washington, DC. The reason? The urban landscape traps heat in the summer and holds it throughout the winter, triggering...

Scientists have debated whether climate change or human activity wiped out the world's megafauna. In Australia new evidence points to hunting, and only hunting

Sixteen scientists write in The Wall Street Journal that there's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change,

The next Ice Age is due within 1,500 years, researchers calculate - but greenhouse gas emissions mean it will not happen then.

A short list of relatively simple actions taken to reduce greenhouse gases other than CO2 could help put the brakes on global warming--if implemented globally

Today’s theme is racing the planet. Technology has given us superpowers over the short term, but it’s gotten us into a long-term climate mess. Now only more technology can get us out. How quickly can we turn the corner? Researchers are finding unforeseen Arctic forces driving up greenhouse gas levels that we can’t even...

Presumably this is to ensure that when we set out on an interstellar journey to a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, we want to make sure that it isn't raining when we land. Just kidding.