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Rat numbers are skyrocketing across US cities — and it's only going to get worseRat populations are growing in cities around the world because of climate change. A new study explains why this is happening now and what we can do about it.
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Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and likely to accelerate in coming decadesOcean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find.
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Catastrophic tipping point in Greenland reached as crystal blue lakes turn brown, belch out carbon dioxideRecord heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.
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2024 was the hottest year on record, and the 1st to breach the 1.5 C global warming limit, data revealsScientists have warned that the Paris Agreement to limit global warming will likely be breached as data reveals 2024 was the hottest year in human history.
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The most important and shocking climate stories of 2024Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in 2024. Here are our picks for this year's top climate change stories.
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Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds in disturbing new time-lapse videoSatellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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Scientists say sprinkling diamond dust into the sky could offset almost all of climate change so far — but it'll cost $175 trillionThe geoengineering scheme, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, would not be cheap, but scientists say it could buy us some time until we reach net-zero carbon.
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'An existential threat affecting billions': Three-quarters of Earth's land became permanently drier in last 3 decadesClimate change is causing unprecedented drying across the Earth — and five billion people could be affected by 2100, a new UN report has warned.
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A third of Earth's species could become extinct by 2100 if climate change isn't curbedAn analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming.
