Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Earth’s energy imbalance has more than doubled in 20 years, indicating faster-than-expected global warming. Most excess heat ...

Thousands of robotic floats have monitored temperatures in the world’s oceans since the 1990s. Both methods show the energy ...

This diffusion‑limited regime likely dominates for fluffier aggregates made of phytoplankton remains, fecal pellets, or ...

The Earth is heating faster than many climate models predicted. According to a new study from CICERO, models with low climate ...

The debate about tipping points in the climate system has intensified over the past two decades, according to the study. Read more about our changing planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point ...

Earth’s major climate goal is too warm for the polar ice sheets, study says. If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice ...

A brighter Earth won’t solve every problem, but without it, every other climate effort will fall short. The sleeping giant of albedo is the climate system’s protective shield. Albedo ...

While there is no official definition, most scientists and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change understand the goal to be a long-term average temperature, over 20 or 30 years.

Seven years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the world wouldn’t warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels until 2040. Then two years ago, the ...