Climate change "shows no sign of slowing." Last year saw record levels of major greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, released into the Earth's atmosphere, according to an ...

The astounding western North America heat wave of 2021 broke records by tens of degrees, killed more than 1,000 people and sparked catastrophic wildfires. A new study affirms that it was driven ...

Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and scientists are scrambling to figure out why there’s been such a dramatic increase of it in the atmosphere Methane is an even ...

WASHINGTON — In 2021, wildfires pillaged the world’s carbon-rich snow forests. That year, burning boreal forests released 1.76 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, researchers reported March 2 in a ...