Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Earth’s climate is now warming so quickly that one of NASA’s most influential former scientists says the planet has crossed a line it can no longer simply step back from. His warning, delivered nearly ...

In 2023, heat-tolerant soft corals in the Caribbean bleached and died for the first time on record, part of the near-total devastation of the Mesoamerican Reef. Credit: Bob Berwyn California Pays ...

Earth’s climate has changed throughout history, causing a number of climate change impacts affecting human life and the ecosystem, experts say. Information gathered by scientists from sources such as ...

New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points. These will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action. A tipping point is a moment in ...

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and ...

But the EPA rescinded the endangerment finding anyway. In the final rule (PDF), the agency avoids any debate over the impact of GHG buildup in the atmosphere. Instead, it claims that it lacks the ...

Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan yearned for the American dream while growing up in southern India in the 1960s: specifically, a Chevrolet Impala, a muscle car he learned about from his father, a ...

For 42 years, NASA satellites have tracked how sunlight powers Earth’s climate. The long record is revealing subtle shifts that could reshape climate predictions. These findings are adding new layers ...