The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely, that’s the essence of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the world in a "very clear way" that humans are heating the planet, its ...

Behind the confident headlines about climate change, a different conversation unfolds in academic circles. There is a very ...

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing to do so as they ...

In 1990, scientists from around the world published a report that spelled out that the climate was changing and that we — human beings — were the cause. If we ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of ...

The U.S. is skipping the global meeting, raising concerns about delaying a sweeping science assessment on the current state of climate change. The Trump administration’s abrupt retreat from global ...

This week, two more "Climategate"-related investigations trickled out, and—no surprise—both of them knocked down (yet again) the long-running charge that climate scientists are engaged in some sort of ...

"We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice." That's the message from more than 50 leading scientists who study ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advises the world’s governments on climate change science, impacts and response strategies, and recently released their latest report on climate ...

Three years ago the United Nations climate science body issued a landmark report warning that the planet was on track to blow past efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, ...