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

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent ...

Was anyone else kind of hot last year? If so, there's a good reason for that, and it's likely that things are only going to get warmer going forward.

For decades, Earth’s forests, wetlands and soils quietly mopped up a huge share of the carbon pollution from cars, power plants and factories. Now that natural brake on global warming is faltering ...

The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

Methane is currently responsible for about one-third of global warming. This greenhouse gas is about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of its ability to heat up the climate system, ...

UK winters are becoming significantly wetter mainly due to warming driven by human burning of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, a Newcastle University study reveals.

Chilly weather moments might spark doubt about climate change, but research consistently shows our planet is heating up. Even with brief cold spells, the overall temperature is on the rise, resulting ...

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 ...