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 ...

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

As China slashed sulfur dioxide emissions by roughly 75 percent, a new study finds Earth began warming much, much faster.

Pollution and climate change are fueling a megadrought in the Southwest U.S., threatening water supplies and reshaping the ...

Wildfires have spread across the planet for millennia, but they are increasing as the climate warms. Decimated forests, ...

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

The researchers drew their conclusions by abandoning popular climate models that they said in recent years have not accurately reflected sea surface temperatures as observed in real-time.