The Latest Breaking News from Global Warming

Abu Dhabi (AFP) - The fight against global warming should not be at the expense of economic growth, the United Arab Emirates' oil chief who will lead this year's UN climate talks said on Monday.

Two new species of prehistoric primate were recently identified by scientists studying fossils from Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic. The primates are closely related and likely originated from a single colonisation event, following which they split into two species: Ignacius dawsonae and Ignacius mckennai.

Thanks to El Niño, the world is about to experience something like time travel to the year 2050. It won’t be pleasant. But rather than devolve into panic at the grim climate future it portends, we should use it as a warning about the need to do more to slow…

Paris (AFP) - Capping global warming at liveable levels will be impossible without massively scaling up the extraction of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the first global assessment of CO2 removal warned Thursday.

A new study of Greenland’s ice cores indicates that rising temperatures bear the ‘clear signature of global warming’.

Scientists find over 40 percent of land animals will be exposed to extreme heat events under a high global warming scenario.

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewered oil firms on Wednesday for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable.

Scientists expect global average temperatures to potentially set records in 2023 or 2024.

ExxonMobil, one of the world's largest fossil fuel companies, predicted global warming, but chose to downplay climate change for decades.