As climate change continues, the rate at which Earth warms could increase in the future, according to new simulations.

Although it is far from the power stations, roads and flight paths of the populated world, the Southern Ocean is already responding to climate change.

We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million years ago.

Our polar regions are in trouble. Sea ice is retreating, ice shelves are collapsing and the oceans are heating and acidifying.

Just like us, the natural world dances to the rhythms of its seasonal cycles. We all enjoy the first suggestions of spring as trees come into leaf, migrant birds arrive, bees and butterflies emerge, and men in cities start wearing shorts.

Tropical Cyclones – Storms That Bring Strong, Rotating Winds And Rain, And Which Can Intensify Into Hurricanes Or Typhoons – Affect Coastal Regions Around The World.

The fires raging across the Brazilian Amazon have captured the world’s attention. Meanwhile, South America’s second-largest forest, the Gran Chaco, is disappearing in plain sight.

Australia is hot. But future extreme hot weather will be worse still, with new research predicting that Sydney and Melbourne are on course for 50℃ summer days by the 2040s if high greenhouse emissions continue.

Evidence for these stone-tool-wielding, megafauna-hunting peoples can be found at the bottom of numerous limestone freshwater sinkholes in Florida’s Panhandle and along the ancient shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico.

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is warming our climate, but it also affects plants directly.

Just as Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 identified a temperature at which paper self-combusts, the Australian Open has just shown the world that there is a temperature at which tennis players start to hallucinate about Snoopy.

Around 66m years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, ammonites, and many other species.