global warming

Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’ winter peak

Daisy Hips

Antarctic sea ice is “behaving strangely” and might have entered a “new regime”, the director of the US National Snow ...

Chinese-led team’s carbon dioxide conversion system hailed as ‘milestone’ in harnessing No 1 greenhouse gas

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More importantly, the system can operate continuously for at least 5,000 hours, far longer than any other known device under ...

The Amazon’s crucial water cycle faces collapse, scientists say

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Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action ...

Global warming is making Greenland greener

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Global warming is turning Greenland green. Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades ...

Greenland is getting greener. That could have huge consequences for the world

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The area of Greenland’s ice loss in the past three decades is roughly 36 times the size of New York ...

Viral polar bear on ice photo a reminder of climate change effects

Carol Dennis

A stunning photo of a polar bear drifting off to sleep on a bed of ice won the Natural History ...

Jury awards climate scientist Michael Mann $1 million in defamation lawsuit

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million to climate scientist Michael Mann who sued a pair of ...

The world just marked a year above a critical climate limit scientists have warned about

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Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 12 months for the first time on record, new data shows, ...

Data from centuries-old sea creatures suggest the world has overshot a climate limit. Some scientists say not so fast

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Using sponges collected off the coast of Puerto Rico in the eastern Caribbean, scientists have calculated 300 years of ocean ...

The world successfully tackled a dangerous pollutant. But did it accidentally warm the planet in the process?

Daisy Hips

The huge cargo ships that criss-cross the world’s oceans sometimes leave “tracks” in their wake — long, wispy clouds that ...