The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

One of the consequences of climate change is that weather events are becoming more extreme. In counterintuitive ways, like ...

For years, climate policy has been built around the idea that humanity still had a narrow window to keep global warming within a relatively “safe” range. Now a wave of new research suggests that ...

HAMBURG — For some time now, climate scientists have been discussing a troubling hypothesis: Is global warming accelerating? The German Physics Society and the German Meteorological Society are now ...

As the storms hit our community this week, and people were being warned to expect cold, ice and power outages, you likely heard some friends and neighbors say something like “Ha! See what a bunch of ...

As climate change escalates, intense storms are becoming more common in the tropics and elsewhere, resulting in a variety of forest impacts. Those effects are generating concern among researchers over ...

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 ...