Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was ...

Spring breathes new life into the Jefferson Flea Market, where the covered pavilion protects treasure-hunters from April ...

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean -- between Antarctica and other continents -- will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in ...

People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

What happened this year was that we had an El Nino event. It's a natural warming event that adds to the global temperature, so it boosted it temporarily above that 1.5 Celsius mark. What we're ...

Concentrations of carbon dioxide - the key driver of global warming - are at the highest levels in the last 800,000 years. Each of the past eight years has smashed new records for heat in the ...

Some of their preliminary findings are detailed in the WMO's latest State of Climate report, which estimates that current global warming is somewhere between 1.34 degrees and 1.41 degrees compared ...