Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has ...

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

The tiny fragments might be heating our planet up further, according to research.

2023 set a number of alarming new records. The global mean temperature also rose to nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial level, another record. Seeking to identify the causes of this ...

A study says the coloring of microplastics can make a big difference in how much they heat up the Earth.

A major shift in global shipping regulations intended to improve air quality may have temporarily — and inadvertently — set off a geoengineering reaction that is warming the planet, new research has ...

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 ...

At first glance, Harvard Forest seems like an ordinary woodland. Oak trees shade the terrain among small shrubs and other trees, mostly maple, birch and beech. Fallen leaves coat the ground below.

Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create longer-lived planet-warming contrails than older aircraft, a new study has found. Modern commercial aircraft flying at high altitudes create ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...