HAMBURG — For some time now, climate scientists have been discussing a troubling hypothesis: Is global warming accelerating? The German Physics Society and the German Meteorological Society are now ...

Scientists have long warned that the planet is warming. Now, new research suggests it may be warming faster than previously understood. A study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...

Global warming has picked up speed in the past decade, according to a new analysis from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). By removing short term natural influences such as El ...

Megacities flooded by surging seas. Mountains bare of the glaciers that once perched on their craggy peaks. Ice sheets crumbling into the ocean. The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead ...