The Latest Breaking News from Global Warming

On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan dismissed the widely circulated notion that animal agriculture is a leading contributor to global warming.

Legislation aimed at limiting the US’s role in global warming is likely to be an early target of Donald Trump

Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more trees in Alaska, Greenland and Iceland.

2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.

Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in 2024. Here are our picks for this year's top climate change stories.

Carbon taxes are a key tool in humanity’s efforts to avoid global warming above 2 C. The idea of a carbon tax is simple: it works by making carbon-intensive activities more expensive, thus encouraging individuals to reduce these activities.

Montana’s Supreme Court has upheld a landmark climate ruling that said the state was violating residents’ constitutional right to a clean environment by permitting oil, gas and coal projects without regard for global warming

In South Africa, the new 2024 Climate Change Act requires local governments to plan responses to global warming. These local authorities should find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible, such as from their bus services, and reduce their use of electricity that is produced by burning coal. They…

An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming.