Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a new study published in Nature. Methane ...

A new climate study has found that the Earth is warming faster than ever recorded, with the rate rising to about 0.35°C per decade in the past ten years. Scientists say the acceleration remains even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth from Space Getty Images/fotograzia Climate change deniers inaccurately claim that Earth's rapidly rising temperatures are ...

So-called "zombie fires" in the peatlands of Alaska, Canada and Siberia disappear from the Earth's surface and smoulder underground during the winter before coming back to life the following spring.

Gavin Schmidt, a leading climate modeller and the boss of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) in New York City, is not noted for his humility. Nevertheless, writing in Nature, a journal, ...

Computer simulation of Earth's climate evolving over one million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was ...

Until now, the slow weathering of silicate rocks has been considered as the main factor in climate regulation. In this system, rain takes up carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere, falls on exposed ...