The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.

Scientists calculate that last year was one of the three hottest on record, along with 2024 and 2023. The trend indicates ...

Global efforts to address climate change are — still — going far better today than they were a decade ago, even with recent politics pushing the problem to the back burner. Why it matters: We humans ...

Do people see climate change affecting their area? A median of 74% across nine middle-income countries say global climate change is affecting the area where they live at least somewhat, while 24% say ...

It started in April, just after Earth Day, when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute, called for a “radical reset” in the way the world tackles climate ...

Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became locked in Earth's atmosphere, a World Meteorological Organization report ...

Majorities in all but three countries – Israel, Nigeria and the U.S. – see climate change as a major threat. Around eight-in-ten hold this view in Argentina, Brazil, France, Japan and South Korea.

The title of this essay might be a bit misleading at first. Countries keep setting ever-more stringent emission reduction and higher financing targets at every UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to ...

The curtain has fallen, and despite all voices and mixed echoes of what was possible through our G20 Presidency, South Africa has delivered a resoundingly successful G20, and a promising outcome. For ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ...