This is a summary of a story on Nicholas School of the Environment. A Duke study has found that fragments of colorful airborne plastic are heating the planet. When plastic products break down, wind ...

Former federal climate experts warn that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations hit a record high in May and that the monthly average global temperature this summer could rise as much as 3.5 ...

Record-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits. These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t have a direct warming effect on their own. Instead, they ...

Carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds don’t just poison the air we breathe. They also fuel chemical reactions in the atmosphere that heat the planet. Of all the global warming that has ...

Strong and consistent evidence shows that the entire climate system is continuing to heat, driving rapid global warming. Human activities pushed global warming to 1.37°C in 2025, and its level is ...

NEW BEDFORD — Global Learning Charter Public School announced the graduates of the Class of 2026. Their graduation ceremony is slated for Sunday, June 7. Jaiden Andrade, Jaslin Arita Hernandez, ...

The World Health Organization is at it again. A top commission—stacked with a former European Union climate commissioner, a former prime minister of Iceland, other former ministers and environmental ...

Global warming is likely to surpass 1.5C for the next five years, breaching a threshold that countries set in the 2015 Paris climate accord, and 2027 is set to be the next year of record-breaking heat ...

May 19 (UPI) --Climate scientists have decided to remove their worst-case scenario for how hot the Earth could get if nothing is done to slow global warming. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel ...

Renewable energy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that climate scientists were wrong all along. By Eric Niiler See more of our coverage in ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap late Saturday after a prominent international climate change panel backed off using some of the most aggressive doomsday estimates after determining ...

What’s good for Netflix is… good for the world? In January 2016, the streaming giant expanded its service to an additional 130 countries and territories, reaching more than 190 overnight. Now it’s ...