This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...

Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly 6 degrees Centigrade lower than the average temperature from then to ...

In basic math the difference between two and four is simple. In terms of degrees Celsius, the difference between 2 and 4 is catastrophe, according to a team of climate scientists and researchers.

This rise in temperature is the ominous conclusion reached by two different studies using entirely different methods published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday. Other WRAL Top Stories ...

Two years later, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established to stabilize the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at a level that would “prevent dangerous ...

In a troubling milestone, June marked Earth’s 12th consecutive month of global warming at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius — the internationally accepted threshold for avoiding the worst effects of ...

This summer, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unveiled a new report forecasting dire consequences if the planet warms above a threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Kate ...

Delhi on Wednesday witnessed the coldest morning of the season with the minimum temperature dipping to 8 degrees Celsius, the ...

Delhi woke to an early-winter chill on Wednesday as the minimum temperature dropped to 8 degrees celsius, making it the ...

BAGHDAD – Iraqis are enduring the hottest day so far this year, with temperatures soaring up to 51 degrees Celsius (124 Fahrenheit) in Baghdad and as much as 53 degrees Celsius (127 Fahrenheit) in the ...

The higher reaches of Himachal continued to reel under cold conditions, with Tabo in the tribal district of Lahaul-Spiti, ...