Climate change

To assess risk from heat, scientists use the "wet bulb temperature," looking at the point where the human body isn't able to let enough heat out.

Zombie fires that burn underground over winter may be a case of climate change-driven spontaneous combustion, new research reveals.

A reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions may have caused "80% of the measured increase in planetary heat uptake since 2020."

Like whale blubber, oil as a dominant source of energy will gradually be phased out over the next decades. Here's what that transition may look like.

Warm seawater flowing into the glacier's underside could significantly accelerate the process of its collapse.

Tree rings suggest the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, with temperatures exceeding those of the coldest summer in the same period by 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 Celsius).

Yellowstone's lake's ice cover has remained unaffected by increasing temperatures due to increased snowfall. But this could make it vulnerable to a sudden shift.

An AI-driven supercomputer dubbed Earth's 'digital twin' could help us avoid the worst impacts of climate catastrophes headed our way.

Sea levels were extraordinarily high during the last period of the dinosaur age. But ocean levels may have been even higher before that.

In this extract from Our Ancient Lakes: A Natural History, Jeffrey McKinnon examines the changes taking place in Lake Baikal as temperatures rise in this vast and otherworldly ecosystem.