Global Warming
Global warming threshold could be hit temporarily in 2024
Global average temperature could temporarily cross a 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) threshold next year, Britain's Met Office said on Friday, a milestone in climate history that could raise alarm at the COP28 summit being held in Dubai
World's oceans set new surface temperature record
The world's oceans set a temperature record in the past week, with their surface hitting 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.7 Fahrenheit)
How temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
About 2 billion people will live in hazardous heat conditions by the end of the century if climate policies continue on their current trajectory, according to new research published in the Nature Sustainability journal
Antarctica sea ice melts to a record low
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States said Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.91 million square kilometres this week, the lowest extent since records began in 1979
What's the link between global heating and extreme weather?
Heavy snowfall und subzero temperatures have wreaked havoc on the United States this holiday season. Deutsche Welle takes a closer look at how this and other types of extreme weather link back to climate change.
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher.
G7 leaders vow 'concrete measures' over Amazon fires
G7 leaders gathering in France this weekend plan to hammer out "concrete measures" in response to the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest, putting them on a collision course with Brazil's rightwing leader.
2018 was 4th warmest, but next 5yrs could break records
While 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, British meteorologists are predicting the next five years will be much hotter, maybe even record-breaking.
Freak heatwave pushes temperatures at North Pole above freezing
Temperatures at the North Pole rises above freezing point, 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of extreme weather events.
COP 21: 2015 likely to be warmest on record, says UN weather body
Temperatures across the globe are likely to break records in 2015 with readings running "well above" any previous year, scientists say.
Major greenhouse gases hit record highs in 2014
Researchers say planet's surface temperature reached its hottest point in 135 years.
Getting wet feet for Tuvalu
An artwork that gets your feet wet is about to be unveiled in Venice at the 56th International Biennale.
Climate change: Nature's wrath hits hard
The warnings could not have been more severe: a monster named Haiyan was coming, a storm carrying rains at wind speeds no one on Earth had ever seen or felt before, so strong it could sweep the sea inland.
Global CO2 emissions 'stalled' in 2014
International Energy Agency's data shows the growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year