Clouds help control Earth’s temperature by trapping heat and reflecting sunlight. They keep the planet warm by holding in ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January — and the fact that ...

Op-ed views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been predominantly portrayed as the chief culprit driving global warming. For decades, […] ...

Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Could a sudden drop in pollution from cargo vessels criss-crossing global shipping lanes be inadvertently making the world ...

This ability is decreasing as snow and ice melts and with a decline in lower altitude clouds. Loss of sea ice ... been a bit of an acceleration in global warming underlying all the year-to-year ...

Manmade aerosols have long been considered a prime factor in global warming, but now they are reducing, worldwide ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...

or thickening clouds to reduce sunlight and slow global warming. These ideas are illustrated in a graphic from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ky. Sen. Steve Rawlings ...