Global warming
Global warming will make insects hungrier, eating up key crops: study
Researchers find a new way that global warming is bad for the planet: more hungry bugs.
31 August 2018, 05:18 AM
Global warming: Bangladesh among ‘most at risk’ in struggle to stay cool
Bangladesh is among the countries ‘most at risk’ as a study shows that more than a billion people in the world are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures.
16 July 2018, 05:35 AM
Global warming will make veggies harder to find: Study
Global warming is expected to make vegetables significantly scarcer around the world, unless new growing practices and resilient crop varieties are adopted, researchers warn.
12 June 2018, 04:45 AM
Global arming could threaten half of species in 33 key areas: Report
Global warming could place 25 to 50 percent of species in the Amazon, Madagascar and other biodiverse areas at risk of localised extinction within decades, a report says.
16 March 2018, 05:00 AM
Global warming will expose millions more to floods
Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, researchers say.
11 January 2018, 13:20 PM
2017 set to be hottest non-El Nino year: UN
2017 is on track to be the hottest year on record except for two warmed by El Nino phenomena, the UN's World Meteorological Organization says.
6 November 2017, 13:38 PM
Carbon emission: Bangladesh weather to turn deadly by this century, says study
Venturing outdoors may become deadly across wide swaths of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan by the end of the century as climate change drives heat and humidity to new extremes, according to a new study.
3 August 2017, 06:11 AM
Sea ice in Arctic shrinks to second lowest level on record
Arctic sea ice this summer shrinks to its second lowest level since scientists started to monitor it by satellite, with scientists saying it is another ominous signal of global warming.
18 September 2016, 12:25 PM
Scientists make news clouds which may lessen global warming
A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.
27 May 2016, 04:56 AM
Global warming is now changing how Earth wobbles
Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.
10 April 2016, 05:06 AM
Giant sheet of ice breaks off into the ocean
A roughly 2,000-square-mile block of ice just broke off in the Arctic Ocean.
17 March 2016, 05:16 AM
Darker ice causes Greenland to melt faster: study
Greenland’s snow-white ice is getting darker and melting faster, according to a new study, published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere.
5 March 2016, 05:05 AM
Climate change poised to hurt food supplies: study
The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday.
3 March 2016, 06:48 AM
Gas from thawing permafrost could add further to global warming: study
Arctic permafrost that is thawing due to global warming is releasing greenhouse gases, further compounding the problem of climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
27 February 2016, 05:09 AM
Sea levels rising at fastest pace in 2,800 years: study
The world's oceans are rising at a faster rate than any time in the past 2,800 years, and might even have fallen without the influence of human-driven climate change, researchers say.
23 February 2016, 14:39 PM
Climate change 'to make transatlantic flights longer'
Flights from the UK to the US could take longer due to the changes in the climate, according to a new study.
10 February 2016, 06:31 AM
Climate change boosted 'once-a-century' floods: study
Man-made climate change significantly enhanced the risk of the severe winter storms that ravaged southern England two years ago, according to a study released Monday.
2 February 2016, 07:00 AM
Scientists to adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ to set new time for our demise
Scientists are set to announce today whether the civilization is any closer or farther from disaster based on a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global catastrophe.
26 January 2016, 12:48 PM
Drones, smartphones turning California residents into citizen scientists
In California, residents are using smartphones and drones to document the coastline’s changing face.
26 January 2016, 07:18 AM
Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997: Study
The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday shows.
19 January 2016, 05:03 AM