The Walker circulation, an atmospheric circulation pattern in the tropics, has accelerated in recent years, puzzling climate scientists who had anticipated the opposite. Researchers from the Max ...

Something strange is happening to the planet's thermometer - and it is not behaving the way even the best climate models predicted. Global warming is not unfolding evenly across the surface of the ...

Few people have even a rudimentary understanding of the mechanisms driving global warming. Do you? Commentator Tania Lombrozo would like to... On a pleasant day in 2011, researchers roamed San Diego's ...

2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level, another record. Seeking to identify the causes of this ...

For the past few years, scientists have watched, aghast, as global temperatures have surged — with both 2023 and 2024 reaching around 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. In some ways, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Since the 1800s, the Earth has warmed around 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees F). The strong scientific consensus says this warming is driven by the greenhouse effect from carbon ...

In a study published today in Science, researchers say they have solved a climate enigma — the inexplicable surge in global temperature in 2023, rising faster than climate models predicted. By ...