In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear to be plants. Each coral polyp houses microscopic algae that convert ...

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

The upshot is that clean-energy technologies account for the bulk of new energy investments, and that is the first step in ...

UK winters are becoming significantly wetter mainly due to warming driven by human burning of fossil fuels releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, a Newcastle University study reveals. The ...

The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Eccles writes about sustainability in the capital markets. I live in Concord, MA. My wife and I planned to go out for ...

Contrails, vapour clouds from plane exhaust, contribute significantly to global warming, possibly 30-65% of aviation's impact, especially in colder regions at higher altitudes. Singapore's Aviation ...

A sprawling winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, grounded thousands of flights and disrupted travel across the eastern half of the U.S. could be the first real test of the ...