Global warming

2018 was 4th warmest, but next 5yrs could break records

While 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, British meteorologists are predicting the next five years will be much hotter, maybe even record-breaking.
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN says, warning that the time to act is running out.
Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study

Researchers find a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.
Global warming: Bangladesh at ‘risk’ in struggle to stay cool

Bangladesh is among the countries ‘most at risk’ as a study shows that more than a billion people in the world are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures.
Global warming will make veggies harder to find

Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and resilient crop varieties are adopted, researchers warn.
Global warming could threaten half of species in 33 key areas

Global warming could place 25 to 50 percent of species in the Amazon, Madagascar and other biodiverse areas at risk of localised extinction within decades, a report says.
Global warming will expose millions more to floods

Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, researchers say.
2017 set to be hottest non-El Nino year: UN

2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says.
Bangladesh weather to turn deadly by century: Study

Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by the end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a new study.
Sea ice in Arctic shrinks to second lowest level on record

Arctic sea ice this summer shrinks to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming.
Scientists make news clouds which may lessen global warming

A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.
Global warming is now changing how Earth wobbles

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.
Giant sheet of ice breaks off into the ocean

A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.
Darker ice causes Greenland to melt faster: study

Greenland’s snow-white ice is getting darker and melting faster, according to a new study, published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere.
Climate change poised to hurt food supplies: study

The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday.
Gas from thawing permafrost could add further to global warming: study

Arctic permafrost that is thawing due to global warming is releasing greenhouse gases, further compounding the problem of climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
Sea levels rising at fastest pace in 2,800 years: study

The world's oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say.
Climate change 'to make transatlantic flights longer'

Flights from the UK to the US could take longer due to the changes in the climate, according to a new study.
Climate change boosted 'once-a-century' floods: study

Man-made climate change significantly enhanced the risk of the severe winter storms that ravaged southern England two years ago, according to a study released Monday.
Scientists to adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ to set new time

Scientists are set to announce today whether the civilization is any closer or farther from disaster based on a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global catastrophe.
Drones, smartphones turning California residents into citizen scientists

In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face.
Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997: Study

The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday shows.
NOAA says 2015 was US' second hottest year on record

Last year was the second hottest on record in the contiguous United States, and included 10 major weather and climate events, such as droughts and storms, that each led to over $1 billion in damages, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday.
DiCaprio happy leaders taking climate change more seriously

Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood actor and an environmental activist is feeling optimistic now that the debate over climate change has started to wane and world leaders are finally starting to take it more seriously, reports ABC News.
New discovery about Greenland could be making sea-level rise worse

Analyzing a new study, Washington Post reports that rising global temperatures may be affecting the Greenland ice sheet and its contribution to sea-level rise in more serious ways that scientists imagined.
El Nino weather 'could be as bad as 1998'

The US space agency Nasa has warned that the effects of the current El Nino weather phenomenon could be as bad as those of 1998, the strongest on record.
Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation

The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of global climate change, scientists say.
COP21: Rows likely over new climate text

A critical "clean" draft text has been published at UN climate talks here in Paris after delays.
Climate talks shift from binding targets to 'name and shame'

It's clear at this point that even if the international climate accord being negotiated in suburban Paris becomes legally binding, it won't include punitive measures like trade sanctions or embargoes on straggler countries that fail to meet their commitments.
COP21: Prince Charles to call for forest protection

Prince Charles is expected to call for better protection of the world's forests at the UN climate conference in Paris.