Everybody is talking about "climate change" and "global warming". But what is global warming, actually?
Seen from space, our atmosphere is but a tiny layer of gas around a huge bulky planet. But it is this gaseous outer ring and its misleadingly called greenhouse effect that makes life on Earth possible – and that could destroy life as we know it.
This winter some parts of the world are freezing in record cold conditions. Is this really what global warming looks like?
Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider discusses what we know and don’t know about the future of the Earth’s climate.
In what seems like nature’s brutal irony, the gases that make life on Earth possible now threaten our very existence. Read our greenhouse gas profiles and find out why CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide might become benevolent climate killers — and how we can react.
Stolen emails and erroneous predictions have damaged the image of climate science. Most criticism, however, stems from a campaign of disinformation, says the author of ‘Climate Cover Up’ James Hoggan.
Stefan Rahmstorf is one of the world's best known climate scientists and one of the most outspoken critics of climate change skeptics. Here he tackles the most common and pervasive climate change myths promoted by climate change deniers.
How long would it take the climate to recover if we all disappeared? We asked Alan Weisman, bestselling author of The World Without Us.
German student Simone Lepper spent half a year in schools in Germany, Estonia, and Cameroon teaching about climate change - and the 'Blanket Effect'.
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report delivered a huge blow to global warming skeptics. Leading climate scientists are now 90 percent sure that human activity is heating up the planet. They present various scenarios that show where global warming could take us by the end of the century.
