Man-made global heating has long been presented as a relatively simple chain of cause and effect: humans disrupt the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels, thereby increase the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to higher temperatures around the globe.

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are mainly used for cooling and refrigeration.

A larger part of the Amazon rainforest could cross a tipping point where it could become a savanna-type ecosystem than previously thought.

Another stretch of intense heat has reinvigorated the state’s brutal 2020 fire season.

NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Delta in infrared imagery as it moved through the Caribbean Sea.

With intense wildfires in the western United States and frequent, intense hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation is again affected by extreme weather-related events resulting from climate change.

Dust blowing onto high mountains in the western Himalayas is a bigger factor than previously thought in hastening the melting of snow there, researchers show in a study published Oct. 5 in Nature Climate Change.

Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new CU Boulder-led research finds.

Archaeologists estimate that the I-Kiribati have been living on their islands in the central Pacific Ocean for 2,000 years.

The U.S. moved into astronomical fall on September 22. From a weather point of view, though, we’re knee-deep in typical fall hazards.