What would happen to the planet if the ice caps melted?

New climate stripes for cities and countries all over the world have been launched to mark Earth Day (April 22). The updated graphics, which now include an additional stripe to represent temperatures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veerabhadran Ramanathan in the Maldives in 2006 with aerial vehicles that were used to measure pollutants in South Asia's ...

Scientists have long warned that the planet is warming. Now, new research suggests it may be warming faster than previously understood. A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

Global warming does not affect our planet evenly. Some areas such as the Arctic region or high mountain peaks warm faster than the global average, whereas others, including large parts of the tropical ...

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Price shocks in the global energy market, like the ones we are currently experiencing, are nothing new. In 1973, oil prices ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, and they run on the world’s largest ...

Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan yearned for the American dream while growing up in southern India in the 1960s: specifically, a Chevrolet Impala, a muscle car he learned about from his father, a ...