Map showing global temperature anomaly in degrees Celsius caused by doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide over a century. Credit: Valerio Lucarini and Mickaël Chekroun Map showing global ...

Way back in 1999, when I first landed on the campus of the University of Arkansas to study civil engineering, I had a memorable professor named Rod Williams. Dr. Rod introduced us to Rick's Iron ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have shown that climate change, driven by human activity, was detectable as early as the 1880s, well before the widespread advent of fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

A leading climate scientist says he can 'no longer safely' do his work in America due to the Trump administration's attacks ...

Amnesty International called on world leaders Monday to adopt a comprehensive plan for transitioning away from fossil fuels and to take urgent measures to address climate change and its devastating ...

Global heating and its associated environmental disruptions are increasingly affecting human societies through deteriorating public health, economic instability, and social dislocation. Rising ...

Extra heat trapped in the atmosphere by human-caused greenhouse gas pollution continued to exacerbate global warming in 2020, driven by historically high emission levels that were largely unaffected ...

Human-induced climate change promotes the conditions on which wildfires depend, increasing their likelihood – according to a review of research on global climate change and wildfire risk. In light of ...

Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.