
The warmest ocean temperature in a century was just recorded in California
Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have recorded the warmest sea surface temperature in more...

About 90% of world's largest king penguin colony has mysteriously disappeared
Recent satellite images and a new study show that only 200,000 of the two million king penguins who lived on the...

Scientists report enormous Texas-sized ice melt in Antarctica
A recent snowmelt event in West Antarctica could provide scientists with more information to understand how climate...

Record-breaking CO2 levels mark a “new era” in the world’s climate
Environmentalists around the world winced when global CO2 levels surged past 400 parts per million for the first...

New NASA data confirms July 2016 was the hottest month on record
Newly released data from NASA indicates July was the hottest month on record, since scientists began tracking global...

More than one-third of the coral is dead in parts of Great Barrier Reef
The news about the bleaching event taking place in Australia's Great Barrier Reef just keeps getting worse. Researchers...

Donald Trump believes California farmers who say "there is no drought"
Climate denier Donald Trump makes no bones about the fact that he doesn’t believe humans are contributing to...

Could wealthy Californians opt out of water conservation?
El Niño has come and gone. Though one of the strongest in history, the most recent El Niño event did not provide...

Death Valley springs to life with millions of flowers in rare 'super bloom'
Alan Van Valkenburg, local park ranger, said while 'super bloom' isn’t a technical term, it’s what long-time...

Record high Arctic temperatures are becoming the new normal
2015 was officially the hottest year on record, and 2016 is already shaping up to be quite the contender. New data...

Storm ‘unfreezes’ North Pole, causing temps 50 degrees higher than normal
When the going gets tough, there is often a lot of talk about hell freezing over. In reality, it’s the opposite...

Severe drought in South Africa could devastate local economies as crops fail and drinking water becomes scarce
The most severe drought in forty years is plaguing South Africa, and most of the rest of the world knows nothing...

El Niño causes thousands of flowers to bloom in Chile's Atacama Desert
The unfolding 2015-16 El Niño is one of the strongest events on record and contributed to the record-breaking...

Highly poisonous yellow-bellied sea snake found in California for first time in 30 years
Here’s something else to add to the long list of unexpected side effects of global warming: an influx of highly...