Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them ...

It’s official: Earth’s average temperature climbed to more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in 2024. Climate scientists announced the breach today, signalling that the world ...

Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from lakes and reservoirs risk doubling by the end of the century due to climate ...

Low clouds matter most for albedo and sunlight reflection. They bounce a lot of sunlight back to space. Last year, low cloud cover decreased.

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a device that can generate mechanical power at night by ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...