Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Plankton play a central role in a climate process that scientists now say may behave more aggressively than once thought. As ...

Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...

The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget” say.

Researchers at UC Riverside say they have identified a critical gap in how scientists have long understood Earth's carbon recycling system. By filling ...

Claims that the oceans are now driving a new phase of global cooling have surged across social media, but they collide with a large and consistent body of scientific evidence. Ocean measurements from ...

Add CO2 to the atmosphere and the climate will get warmer — that much is well established. But climate change and carbon aren’t in a one-to-one relationship. If they were, climate modeling would be a ...

Christian Jakob receives funding from the Australian Research Council. At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth’s surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it ...

Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet. By Hiroko Tabuchi In the late 1970s, ...

A Dec. 24 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) features a screenshot of a tweet that claims the term "global warming" was switched to "climate change" because the Earth wasn't actually getting ...