Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...

The rapid meltdown of polar ice could shut down a key ocean current by 2050, triggering catastrophic surges of sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast and dangerous climate shifts in northwestern ...

For Americans, news of a record warm January might seem odd given how cold it was. But the U.S. is just a tiny fraction of ...

In a new analysis, acclaimed climate scientist Professor James Hansen and colleagues said that scientists had greatly underestimated the rate of global ...

Those are the latest alerts in a new paper led by James Hansen, director of Columbia University’s Climate Science, Awareness ...

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now ...

WASHINGTON — Holding long-term global warming to 2 C — the fall-back target of the Paris climate accord — is now "impossible", according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists.

The last 15 years have warmed at about twice the rate of the previous 40 years. View on euronews ...

Scientists link global warming to lower sulfur pollution from ships. Fewer ship aerosols mean less sunlight reflection, allowing heat to stay.

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius – the fallback target of the Paris climate accord – is now ...