The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ...

Activists at the COP climate conference held last year in Baku, Azerbaijan. This year’s conference will be in Brazil next month. Raising ambition to meet the Paris Agreement goal is a key discussion ...

WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ...

A new U.N. environment report warns nations have made very little progress in the fight against climate change, putting the world on track toward dangerous global warming as greenhouse gas emissions ...

Earth’s climate is shifting faster than many models anticipated, and scientists now warn that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push key systems beyond their stable range. Instead of a smooth, ...

A study says warming has accelerated in the last decade, with temperatures rising nearly twice as fast as they did between 1970 and 2015.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. Kay ...

The most aggressive goal of the Paris Agreement is out of reach, according to a new analysis by the Global Carbon Project. The world is on track to set a new record for greenhouse gas emissions just ...

You've probably noticed the headlines. Ice is melting faster than before, glaciers are shrinking, and polar regions are changing in ways that seem almost hard to believe. Scientists who study these ...

Climate change is accelerating risks to Amazon, AMOC Warm water coral reefs in unstoppable dieback, report finds Renewable energy surpasses coal globally, marking a positive climate shift COPENHAGEN, ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the ...