Even passing 1.5C of global warming temporarily would trigger a “significant” risk of Amazon forest “dieback”, says a new study.

Install a fan or AC unit before you start sweating in your house. This way, you don’t have to panic buy or miss out on the best cooling fan sales—which are happening right now. When it’s time to find ...

Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. (Anne Bjorkman, University of Gothenburg) Rapid climate change ...

The word tundra comes from the Finnish word tunturia, which means 'treeless plain.' The extremely cold temperatures of the tundra, combined with the lack of precipitation makes for a rather barren ...

The Arctic is one of the coldest places on Earth, but in recent decades, the region has been rapidly warming, at a rate three to four times faster than the global average. However, current climate ...

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star chart in the world. Later observations written into the catalog ...

A "scorching" Ibieran heatwave will sizzle the UK within days. Temperature charts show a rise in the mercury, with conditions in the high 20s covering swathes of England next week. The maps and ...

The UAE hit the highest temperature in the country on Saturday (May 24), hitting a scorching 51.6°C at 1.45pm, according to the National Center of Meteorology (NCM). The temperature was recorded ...

When it comes to climate change, to invoke one of Al Gore’s favorite sayings, the biggest challenge is not what we don’t know, but what we know for sure but just isn’t so. Two new studies ...

UAE reached 51.6°C in Al Ain, the highest May temperature, surpassing 50.2°C in 2009 Dubai: Today, the weather across the UAE is characterised by persistent heat and humidity, maintaining the ...