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Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster ...
Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening ...
Strange things are happening in the sky above the Arctic — and they’re freezing the U.S. in unexpected ways. A new study ...
One new study identifies a 17% increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters ...
As the climate becomes warmer on average, it makes intuitive sense that we will see more hot days and we've had predictions of this for some time. However, the duration of heatwaves — how many days in ...
Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...
The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in ...
Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).
According to a recent study led by UW associate professors, the increase in boreal forest fires will lead to a slowdown in ...
A report published on June 27 by NOAA said multiple factors have contributed to global warming since the start of the industrial period (post 1900), however, the Sun’s overall brightness ...
Insured losses from US hurricanes could rise by nearly 50 per cent under a 2C global-warming scenario, according to new ...
Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...