Air pollution causes cooling by reflecting sunlight or by changing the properties of clouds so they reflect more sunlight.

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

Global warming has picked up pace since around 2010, leading to the recent string of record warm years. Why this is happening ...

Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the good news is that it is a ...

The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are on the rise after several years of decline, due in part to the Trump administration’s repeal or delay of Obama administration policies. In contrast, China – the world ...

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

Since 2019, the UK has been committed to the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Legally binding net zero ...

They found that, even with improvements in agricultural productivity (due to technological improvements like new seed ...

Humans are on track to release so much greenhouse gas in less than three years that a key threshold for limiting global warming will be nearly unavoidable, according to a study to be released ...