Global warming

Sólheimajökull glacier, which flows from Katla volcano, found to be major source of the greenhouse gas.

Climate intervention offers a grand challenge but can serve to offer a vision of the future that may bring global action.

Scientists are warning that rising temperatures caused by climate change will turn cities worldwide into perfect rat breeding grounds.

When giant icebergs fracture from their parent shelves, scientists get worried.

Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice.

Beer is the world's most popular alcoholic drink by volume consumed.

A viral video has alleged that avocados, almonds, melon, kiwi or butternut squash are not suitable for strict vegans.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee said that failing to recognize climate change was "one of the highest derelictions of duty that I've ever seen by a presidential administration: that we should just give up and suffer these losses. It's not very American."

Around 11 percent of the world's 7.6 billion people currently live in areas less than 33 feet above sea level.

This is not a challenge that can be left to climate scientists—it is a battle that must be joined by all those with an interest in our future survival.

The report comes two years after the Paris Agreement, where nations agreed to try to limit global warming to 1.5℃.

The frequency of more potent storms is growing, but the storms are also slowing down in speed, inundating the ground below.

From a monkey cradling a plastic bottle to a diver's effort to untangle a turtle from ocean trash, this is our selection of the most stunning photos from this year's competition.

"Our action now locks in how the ice will react for centuries and millennia to come," warned the study's author.

The new bill requires the state to use 50 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2026.

"The sixth mass extinction is taking place at unprecedented speed. But it is not too late to avert the worst," 200 celebrities and scientists said in an open letter.

"Losing coral reefs will bring humanity one step closer to extinction on this planet."

Biodiversity changes over the next 100 years could be as severe as when the planet emerged from the last ice age.

Patricia Espinosa said this year's extreme weather events "make the evidence clear that climate change is having an impact on the daily lives of people."

Research has opened the door to new, energy-efficient ways to battle climate change.

The summer of 2018 brought an epidemic of major wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere.

Around a third of the food produced in the world is never eaten, and food systems account for 20-30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

"We don't test the hull of a ship by ramming progressively larger icebergs until we find one that will break it."

The world's hottest rain to a tornado fire. What's next—a merger of cyclones?

The heat could be so unbearable that humans would die within six hours.

As soon as 2031, five times as many people could die due to heat in the U.S. alone, researchers say.

The global temperature will keep on rising, likely caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, according to climate scientists.

More than 600 million people live in low-elevation coastal areas, less than 30 feet above sea level.

These early organisms had a huge impact on their environment.

Experts predict that there may be more than 140 million climate migrants moving within their countries by 2050.