Climate science is complicated and it is difficult to predict and explain what will happen to global temperatures in the future. The media (eg websites, TV news, newspapers) may sometimes present ...

Most everyone is familiar with carbon dioxide (CO2), but methane and nitrous oxide are considerable contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are more cost-effective to reduce. To further ...

Methane (CH4) is the second most important greenhouse gas linked to human activity after CO2. About 40 per cent of methane comes from natural sources. But the majority is linked to human ...

Last month was the world's warmest January on record, despite cooler weather patterns in the Pacific.

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon permitting ... The majority of CO 2 produced by human activities stays in the atmosphere, while some also enters aquatic ecosystems.

A new study is the latest to suggest that reductions in atmospheric sulphur may be driving global warming at a rate faster ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in late 1988, after a variety of factors had pushed the greenhouse effect into ... other metrics for human activity.

There is conclusive evidence that CO2 generated by human behavior is causing climate change, according to researchers. Whether or not new coal plants are under construction is a question of national ...

Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is a greenhouse gas. This means that it causes an effect like the glass in a greenhouse, trapping heat and warming up the inside. This effect is important: without the CO 2 that ...