A special report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) referred to climate change as “a change in the state of climate defined by changes in the mean and/or the variability ...

Climate change can be defined as the change in the usual weather conditions of a certain region. We can also define climate change as the change in Earths climate like rise in temperature, melting of ...

The increased popularity of natural climate solutions (NCS), which aim to protect and restore natural ecosystems to address climate change, has resulted in misunderstandings and confusion around what ...

Extreme weather is, by definition, rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves, and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Citizens without a physical science background naturally find it hard to know what to believe about the claims put forth by those who believe in a ...

A Feb. 21 letter argued weather is not climate ("Cold weather doesn't disprove climate change"). But climate is defined as "weather averaged over a period of time," so the weather this year, by ...

Ocean heating leads to intense marine heatwaves that can be extremely harmful for marine ecosystems, especially on ocean surfaces. A study from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA ...

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