Comedians have long used jokes to raise awareness of serious problems, and many are now turning the gaze to climate change.

Esteban Gast remembered feeling ashamed in high school while calculating how much carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned about the future of Earth science under President Donald Trump, as three key NASA ...

As global temperatures rise, scientists debate the pros and cons of solar geoengineering, a strategy to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight into space.

Friederike Otto, 42, is a climate scientist at Imperial College London, where she is best known for pioneering the new field of attribution science, in which researchers calculate in real time how ...

The concept of thermohaline circulation might sound like a complex term from a science textbook, but it plays a crucial role ...

A new study from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet reveals that days with both high air pollution and extreme heat substantially raise the risk of death in Indian ...

Some of their preliminary findings are detailed in the WMO's latest State of Climate report, which estimates that current global warming is somewhere between 1.34 degrees and 1.41 degrees compared ...

China is expected to redefine its Arctic policy – including an ambition to become a great polar power by 2030 – amid growing scrutiny from far northern countries and a possible US-Russia ...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide - the key driver of global warming - are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years. Each of the past eight years has smashed new records for heat in the ...