Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Global warming is no longer a distant forecast but a lived reality, with recent measurements showing the planet already significantly hotter than the twentieth‑century norm. As human emissions keep ...

The repeated claim that climate science is “settled” overlooks myriad uncertainties, competing mechanisms and computer models ...

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Risky feedback loops that are accelerating global climate change may not be fully accounted for in current climate models, according to a recent study published in the scientific journal One Earth. A ...

For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped ...

Digitally generated post apocalyptic scene depicting a desolate urban landscape with buildings in ruins and cloudy sky. The scene was rendered with photorealistic shaders and lighting in UE4 (Unreal ...

Last year raised many major red flags for climate change, perhaps greatest of all it being the first year in which global average temperatures exceeded 1.5º C above pre-industrial levels. This is the ...

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other forward-looking — examine how rising temperatures have made and could ...