We’ve known that human activity contributes to climate change for decades now. By the 1950s, scientists were starting to raise warning flags, and by the 1980s — with early signs of the planet ...

Climate change made the extreme weather of 2020 much more likely. Here's what's to come next year. ... It’s impossible to know if 2021 will be as record-breaking as 2020, ...

Four key measures of climate change set records in 2021 Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean temperatures and ocean acidification all hit their highest recorded levels, a U.N ...

Big plans to stop climate change hit roadblocks in 2021 President Biden's lofty domestic goals were brought down to earth by congressional opposition, notably from one Democratic senator.

In the climate battle, the year 2021 has produced much that is good, including advances in science, policy and activism. It’s seen much that is bad, including devastating climate impacts.

Many of this year's deadly extreme weather is linked to climate change and scientists warn they're a sign of what's to come. ... In 2021, extremely rare weather disasters became alarmingly common.

The commission, whose officials represent the Philippines at the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change’s annual conference of parties (COP), said that the nation is aiming ...

2021 Climate Year in Review. ... a lot happened this year on the topic of climate change and the environment. ... Super Typhoon Rai made its first landfall in the Philippines on Dec. 16, ...

5X -- The order of magnitude by which climate change is making intense heat waves more likely “Since 1850, the earth has warmed by 1 degree Celsius. It looks small, but it’s enough to multiply by 5 ...

Climate and Environment 2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead. “The weather of the past will not be the weather of the future," says a NOAA scientist.

If that happened, levels of wealth in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand would drop almost by half compared with a world with no climate change. The economy of Indonesia would be 40 percent ...

Climate and Environment How climate change is disproportionately affecting girls in low-income countries. More extreme weather is taking girls out of school, forcing them into earlier marriages ...