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.
How long would it take the climate to recover if we all disappeared? We asked Alan Weisman, bestselling author of The World Without Us.
Stanford University climatologist Stephen Schneider discusses what we know and don’t know about the future of the Earth’s climate.
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.
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.
German student Simone Lepper spent half a year in schools in Germany, Estonia, and Cameroon teaching about climate change - and the 'Blanket Effect'.
What is more dangerous, a wolf or cow? While a sheep might tell you one thing, for a climate expert, the question is a no-brainer: ruminant animals and the gases they produce contribute to global warming.
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.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and scientific adviser to the German chancellor Angela Merkel. He explains how to avoid unmanageable consequences from climate change and why economic growth will still be possible.
