The World Meteorological Organisation said in its latest bulletin on greenhouse gases, an annual study released ahead of the ...

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Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the weather in 2023. People have been quick to blame climate change – and ...

Soaring temperatures. Unusually hot oceans. Record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low levels of Antarctic ice. We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

I often hear something from those uncertain about the danger of our significant greenhouse gas emissions. They, in honest uncertainty, see that temperatures have cycled up and down before humans were ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kenneth J. Davis, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Earth’s atmosphere contains carbon ...

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An updated global warming report was released last Friday in Stockholm by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that doubles down on the claim that humans are causing the Earth to warm ...

The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has officially surpassed levels seen in the entirety of human history, topping the highest point previously recorded in 800,000 years of data by more ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...