Climate Response

These days, as soon as winds hit 74 miles per hour or barometric pressure drops below 990 millibars, people want to know: Is climate change behind this hurricane? It’s an even more pressing question when a giant storm like Harvey is followed by an even more gigantic on...

This animation shows the annual change in sea ice age in the Arctic at each year's minimum extent. Younger sea ice is shown in a dark shade of blue while the ice that is four years old or older is shown as white. A bar graph displayed in the lower right corner quantifi...

The WMO report was “startling”, said Prof David Reay, an emissions expert at the University of Edinburgh: “The need for concerted action on climate change has never been so stark nor the stakes so high.”

It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global wa...

Temperatures near the North Pole are an unheard of 36°F (20°C) warmer than average right now, researchers have reported.

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With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90% certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015.