Not only that, the timing of global sea level rise matches the CO2 increase." Further, researchers can tell that the excess CO2 build-up in Earth's atmosphere comes from burning fossil fuels, he said.

Even best-case levels of global warming would mean 'catastrophic' sea level rise, study says “There’s very little that we’re observing that gives us hope here,” one study author said.

New international research led by Professors Willy Baeyens and Yue Gao of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), published in ...

What they found is sobering. Deoxygenation due to human-made global warming is already detectable in the southern Indian Ocean, and in some regions in the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic. By ...

Even if the world sustains today’s level of warming, at 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit), it could still trigger rapid ice sheet retreat and catastrophic sea level rise, the ...