The findings are not just about saving plants and animals, but about preserving a world that’s becoming harder for humans to live in, said Robert Watson, a former top NASA and British scientist who headed the report.
Since 1999, the ratio has been two warm records set or broken for every cold one.
They are hard to find because they live far south and away from shore, unlike most killer whales.
Earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said.
The U.S. Geological Survey is updating its volcano threat assessments for the first time since 2005.
Michael was barely a hurricane Tuesday morning, with winds of 90 mph. A little over a day later, it had transformed.
Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing temperatures as "astronomical," ''staggering" and "strange." They warned that the climate may have moved into a new and hotter neighborhood.
The winter that has just ended was the hottest in U.S. records for the Lower 48, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming, federal meteorologists say.
Astronomers on Thursday announced that their new billion-dollar U.S. observatory has detected a gravitational wave, a phenomenon Albert Einstein predicted a century ago in his theory of general relativity.
Millions of Americans began digging out Sunday from a mammoth blizzard that set a new single-day snowfall record in Washington and New York City.
A massive winter storm began pummeling the East Coast, as millions of people from the Carolinas to New York braced for a weekend of severe winds, power losses and coastal flooding.
A massive winter storm began pummeling the East Coast, as millions of people from the Carolinas to New York braced for a weekend of severe winds, power losses and coastal flooding.
