A parched Lake Chad in the dry season. Warnings about what it will mean to live in a warmer world are often challenge...
Contrary to the popular claim that Antarctic sea ice increases ‘cancel out’ the loss of ice in the Arctic, a new stud...
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has launched an inquiry into one of its researchers, solar phys...
The southwestern US is no stranger to droughts. California is currently in one of the worst droughts on record for th...
Scientists have issued a stark warning that we should start thinking about unproven geo-engineering solutions so they...
Decades ago, the majority of the Arctic's winter ice pack was made up of thick, perennial ice. Today, very old ice is...
Most concerns about melting glaciers focus on how they contribute to rising sea levels, but scientists are now lookin...
Forget climate change, have we already so degraded land and freshwater systems that we have put the viability of life...
The first study to identify which fossil fuels should stay in the ground to keep the global temperature rise below 2º...
The Asian monsoon is much older than we thought, which means it was going strongly when carbon dioxide levels were ne...
As we've been pointing out for some time now, the oceans have been doing the heavy lifting in removing extra heat fro...
… although you might have heard otherwise. Over the past decade, scientists have been puzzling over an apparent "paus...
