The seventh edition of the Global Outlook (GEO-7) offers a stark vision of the decades to come. But its authors say the worst ...
How extreme will weather events become in the second half of the 21st century? This is what a recent study published in Earth’s Future hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...
"We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice." That's the message from more than 50 leading scientists who study ...
Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...
Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...
Humanity is running out of time to keep the climate system in a state that resembles the one in which modern societies ...
The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...