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Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole.
The Great Barrier Reef's future is bleak.
Finally a 'wall' we can all support.
Big oil has been all about double standards these past couple of years.
No army can fight on an empty belly. Neither can an empire.
Next up is living car-free, avoiding airplane travel, and turning vegetarian.
As if overfishing wasn't enough, fisheries are plummeting because of the effects of higher water temperature as a result of global warming.
The record was broken -- and then broken again.
If this ever happens, it would be like having crocodiles in the Arctic.
Our planet has received its fair share of visitors along the years. This one has been hiding under Greenland's thick ice.
You could hardly imagine more deserving scientists to receive this award.
The planet continues to heat up.
Long story short: it's still bad.
It's not good news.
Counterintuitive -- yes. Disproving global warming? Not in the slightest.
Scientists have put a number between climate change and storm frequency for the first time.
Climate change is exposing plant life that's been preserved by the ice cap for thousands of years.
The world's leading economists are saying we should tax carbon. The politicians say we shouldn't.
Possible? Yes. Is it realistic? Not really. Should we try anyway? Hell yes!
There's enough ice in Antarctica to raise sea levels by 60 meters -- and it's now on a slippery slope.
In the Canadian Arctic, mercury isn't rising only in thermometers.
Well... this is awkward.
If this sounds a bit alarming... it should.
In the past 20 years, Greenland's ice sheet has been melting at six-fold the rate seen before the Industrial Revolution.
Time, he stressed, is running out.
Green roofs are making a comeback -- at least in some parts of the world.
The bottom line: eat more plants!
Soils can store a lot of carbon, but not if temperatures continue to rise.
Regardless of someone's political affiliation, un-scientific beliefs should be taxed. At the end of the day, science is apolitical, and global warming affects us all -- whether we choose to believe in it or not.
This also means that resurfaced liquid water on Mars might kill any hypothetical surviving microbes.
There's a lesson to be learned from today.
This does not bode well.
Finally some good news about the climate for a change!
Ocean life is in bigger trouble than we thought.
Climate change claimed another island in the Pacific -- again.
More cryptocurrencies, more problems.
But if they were made aware of the fact, they might change their mind.
It's like the soundscape for a bad horror movie.
We need urgent climate action in order to avoid catastrophic ecosystem collapse.
A beautiful solar array shaped like a canopy might provide 2,220 MWh of clean energy annually to Melbourne residents.
Well, this is an unusual problem to have.
An understudied phenomenon may double the amount of methane released into the atmosphere by the thawing Arctic permafrost.
Since the early 20th century, Earth's axis has shifted by more than 10 meters.
They're heating up twice as fast as everywhere else.
Oh boy.
Impressive, and very helpful -- visual technology at its finest.
The letter has generated polarizing responses.
"It’s a bit like being almost blind and putting on glasses for the first time and seeing 20/20," a researcher said.
Climate change was unforgiving with the Neanderthals.
Well, well -- who would have guessed.