Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...
Earth is already shooting through the 1.5°C global warming limit, two major studies show
Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to ...
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'Arctic meltdown' is accelerating global warming, already changing Earth in unimaginable ways
Earth passed the 1.5°C warming limit in 2024. The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world.
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Models show intensifying wildfires in a warming world due to changes in vegetation and humidity; only a minor role for lightning
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 ...
Global warming offers mixed blessings for ancient ocean predators, paleobiologists suggest
Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living ...
The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway.
The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an ...
Record January heat suggests La Niña may be losing its ability to keep global warming in check
La Niña is a part of the El Niño southern oscillation, a climate fluctuation that slowly sloshes vast bodies of water and ...
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Sharks and rays benefit from global warming, but not from CO2 in the Oceans
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.