Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

A new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.

Shifts in Earth's orbit around the sun influence the start and end of Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years and human carbon emissions have disrupted this, likely delaying the expected start of a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the world’s waters, fish are making a quiet, biological retreat. The once simple ...

Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.

The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even before the invention of modern cars, a new study says. Using a combination of ...

Meanwhile, the rate of global warming has accelerated over the past few decades. The report said another factor that would have little affect on global warming was a strong, multi-decade long Grand ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. According to March 13, 2025 data from Yale Opinion Maps, 72% of ...

As human activities have released greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, trapping excess heat and warming the planet, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of that excess heat since the 1970s. The ocean ...