On a global scale, we expect an average increase of 7% in the intensity of extreme precipitation events for each degree of warming. Put another way, any additional warming, any additional ...

And against this backdrop of winter's imminent arrival comes a new study that says unusual heat in the Arctic – caused by global warming – is bringing more of the fierce winter weather we ...

Each kind of forest reacted differently to a combination of drivers that can influence how fires start and how severe they become, including global warming, along with changes in land use and ...

(Credit: NOAA Climate.gov) Given record-setting heat waves around the world in recent years, an international team of researchers led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz investigated if the rate of global ...

These record temperatures have spurred discussion and debate about whether the rate of global warming has increased, with some arguing that it has accelerated over the past 15 years. However ...

This “asymmetric” warming could spell trouble for the vast amount of carbon stored in soils there by altering microbial activity more than expected. The planet’s soils store more carbon than ...

Global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably as synonyms, but scientists prefer to use “climate change” when describing the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s ...

It is made from chunks of granite sourced from a quarry close to the site, and its warming appearance is united with a dining table made from locally felled trees. Adding to the playful nature of ...

This highlights that CO 2 released by weathering could trigger a positive feedback loop that would accelerate warming in Arctic regions. Using these past records from rivers, the researchers ...

but without planet-warming emissions. The researchers drew upon information from previous studies of how the property damage from past hurricanes that hit the United States varied in response to ...

The world had finally agreed an upper limit for global warming. And in a move that stunned most experts, it had embraced the stretch target of 1.5°C, the boundary that small island states ...