Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Glacial melt rivers and groundwater springs are transporting large volumes of methane from beneath the ice to the ...

In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since ...

The question about methane and global warming is raised because there are multiple pollutants that drive climate change.

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but researchers still disagree on the size of this effect ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

In 2016, Japan committed to a 26 percent reduction in emissions by 2030. It strengthened this in 2021 to 46 percent by 2030 ...

We think of ourselves as a smart species, and it’s certainly the case that ever since the modern form of the scientific ...

January 2025 was the hottest on record, reaching a whole 1.7 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. If many climate watchers expected the world to cool slightly this year, thanks to the natural ...

Washington state lawmakers are considering allocating $840,000 to the state's Department of Ecology to study the impact of anesthesia gas on the environment. The department would be required to ...

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