The world is getting hotter, faster. A report published last week found that human-caused global warming is now increasing by ...

Limiting the rising in global warming is theoretically achievable, but politically, socially, and economically difficult. Those same sources of greenhouse gas emissions must be limited to reduce ...

At any given time, about two-thirds of Earths surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to ...

New NASA-led research reveals that global warming is altering wind patterns and shrinking Earth's reflective cloud zones.

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EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING Agriculture and Water Scarcity. In Nigeria, evidence of global warming and climate change can be attested to by the late onset of rainfall in recent years.

Summer-only warming experiments underestimate climate change effects on plants compared to year-round temperature increases.

Hotter temperatures are more effective at evaporating water out of plants and soil, leading to droughts and failed crop seasons. At the same time, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which ...

According to a group of scientists, the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement can no longer be met due to the inability of countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists may be underestimating how plants will respond to rising global temperatures when they study hot summers but not ...

The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed even if global temperatures stopped rising immediately, a new study has found.