The main causes of climate change — particularly the rapid global warming observed since the pre-industrial period — are almost entirely driven by human activities that increase greenhouse gas ...

Climate-driven extreme river discharge is projected to prolong and intensify coastal hypoxia, with stronger stratification and spatially uneven oxygen loss, suggests a study using an event-based ...

Climate change is rapidly altering our world in profound ways. Human activity has already increased the earth’s temperature by about 2°F since 1880. As the planet continues to get hotter, through a ...

Learn how climate change occurs and why humans are causing it. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and ...

NASA and NOAA keep separate definitions for global warming and climate change. One is a temperature number. The other covers ...

In June 2025, a climate change-driven heat wave caused roads to buckle in multiple states. The same heat caused train tracks to warp, resulting in major delays for rail commuters across the East Coast ...

Human activities since the Industrial Revolution — mainly burning fossil fuels for energy, heating, transportation, and more — have caused a sharp rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Treasury secretary said it is “difficult to deconstruct” the reasons for global warming, which he described as a belief of the “elite.” By Alan Rappeport and Lisa Friedman Alan Rappeport covers ...

Investing more in the military is not a solution to climate change and may cost us our security, warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue. In the first article, Neta Crawford at the University of St ...

Withdrawing from the world’s premier climate science organization supports the president’s views about global warming. When the White House announced Wednesday that it would withdraw from dozens of ...

We are told that 2030 is a significant year for global sustainability targets. What could we really achieve comprehensively from now until then, especially with climate change dominating so many ...