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

Paris Agreement aimed to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world ...

Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

A new study has revealed that ocean warming is accelerating at an alarming rate, increasing more than four times faster than ...

La Niña is a part of the El Niño southern oscillation, a climate fluctuation that slowly sloshes vast bodies of water and ...

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

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an ...

Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living today are severely threatened by overfishing and the loss of their habitat.