Climate change may already be reducing crop yields of some of the world’s most important crops and food-insecure countries are being affected the most, according to a new study published
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Meeting the goal set out in the Paris agreement of limiting global warming to well below 1.5–2 degrees Celcius will require efforts that go far beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
Humans pushed the Earth into a new geological epoch, according to some scientists. On 21 May, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), a sub-committee of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
As global temperatures increase, trees are growing faster, but forests are storing less carbon because their so-called carbon residence time — the length of time trees stores carbon — may
A new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) finds that the rate of species extinctions is accelerating and up to one million plant and
A new study led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington shows that in addition to reducing the severity and number of extreme weather events, effective climate
A new analysis published on April 23 in Nature Communications suggests that if nations fail to meet commitments set out in the Paris agreement, climate change related to the Arctic
According to a new paper published on 22 April in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global warming may increase global inequality (1). In fact, the new findings seem
European glaciers are on a course to shrink by one-third by 2050, regardless of greenhouse gas reductions, according to a new study published on 9 April in The Cryosphere, a
Carbon capture and storage (CSS) from fossil fuel power stations is considered crucial to mitigating the effects of climate change. However, a new study published on 8 April in Nature