Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster ...

One new study identifies a 17% increase in the destructive potential of the strongest nor’easters, while another bolsters ...

Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...

A new study suggests that recent rapid global warming may be linked to falling sulphur dioxide pollution, which has dimmed ...

Air pollution causes cooling by reflecting sunlight or by changing the properties of clouds so they reflect more sunlight.

The major circulation patterns in the atmosphere are changing as a result of global warming. We found much of the cloud action is taking place at the edges of these major wind systems. Highly ...

Since 2019, the UK has been committed to the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Legally binding net zero ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

The average person estimates that only 54% of her fellow Americans believe climate change is happening. In reality, 69% do, according to the same Yale survey. The more we talk about global warming ...

A new study finds that if global warming exceeds the Paris Climate Agreement targets, the non-polar glacier mass will diminish significantly. However, if warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius ...

“Global warming really does mean ocean warming,” Kevin E. Trenberth, a co-author of the review and a scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an interview from New Zealand.