In 1987, nearly 200 countries signed the landmark Montreal Protocol, promising to limit their emissions of “ozone-depleting substances” in an effort to slow the thinning of the planet’s o...
Developing countries that have avoided record-breaking heat for many decades are the least prepared for future “exceptional” heatwaves, new research warns.
Methane emissions from wetlands have risen faster this century than in even the most pessimistic climate scenarios, new research finds.
在过去的三年里，南美一直在经历长期干旱。巴拉那河（南美洲第二长的河流）的水位已骤降至近80年来的最低水平，而阿根廷正面临60年来最严重的干旱。
South America has been suffering through a prolonged dry spell for the past three years. Water levels in the Paraná River – the second-longest river in South America – have plummeted to t...
The image of a polar bear stranded on melting sea ice is often used as a symbol of the world’s rapidly changing climate. Yet every now and again, claims emerge in the media that polar bea...
Extreme rainfall which triggered deadly flooding across West Africa this year was made “about 80 times more likely” by human-caused climate change, according to a new rapid attribution st...
The droughts seen across the northern hemisphere this summer were made “at least 20 times more likely” by human-caused climate change, according to a new “rapid-attribution” study.
The UK has provisionally breached 40C for the first time ever, reaching 40.2C at London Heathrow airport. Before this heatwave, temperatures of 40C had never even been forecast for the UK...
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record, featuring an unprecedented 30 named storms. The attribution study, published in Nature Communications, investigates the i...
Animal-based foods have higher carbon and land footprints than their plant-based alternatives, and are most commonly consumed in high-income countries. The study, published in Nature Food...
Arctic sea ice has reached its annual minimum for 2021, clocking in at the 12th lowest on record, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).
Asia is home to the world’s “third pole” – the largest volume of fresh water outside of the polar ice sheets. Melting snowpacks and glaciers from this region feed some of the largest rive...
Clouds could have a greater cooling effect on the planet than climate models currently suggest, according to new research.
Evapotranspiration – the transfer of water from the ground into the air through a combination of evaporation and transpiration – increased globally by 10% between 2003 and 2019, according...
