GLOBAL WARMING

In some regions of the Earth, 180 years of warming has caused the average climate to emerge above the range that was normal prior to the Industrial Revolution, a new study says.

Divers associated with the climate change advocacy group 350.org went underwater marking dead coral reefs, blaming the “reckless behavior of Exxon and fossil fuel companies” for the damage.

Rising temperatures and changes in humidity caused by climate change will severely affect the future of the Olympics, even limiting the number of viable host cities, according to researchers.

In his weekly address Saturday, the U.S. president pledged to continue his efforts to tackle climate change “in the weeks and months ahead.”

Aug. 8 is the “overshoot day” — a day when humanity’s demands on the planet exceed its capacity to regenerate resources.

Some fish have begun to adapt to the increasing acidification of oceans by permanently setting their body defenses at night-time levels.

Many U.S. military bases along the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are at risk of permanently losing land to the ocean in the decades ahead.

The average temperature for every month in 2016, except March, was higher than in any year since reliable record-keeping began, according to NASA.

In an attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by companies and manufacturers, the state’s Air Resources Board sought to extend the four-year cap-and-trade program.

A new study has revealed that the inexorable rise in the planet’s temperature is leading to a marked change in the distribution of clouds all over the Earth.

A study led by the University of Oxford said that human-induced climate change caused the 2003 heat wave, and led to at least 70 percent of heat-related deaths in Paris that summer.

The hole 6 miles above Antarctica has shrunk by almost 2 million square miles compared to its size in 2000 thanks to the global ban on ozone-destroying chemicals, scientists said.

In a letter to the Australian prime minister, an international team of scientists said greater efforts are needed to protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

This is the first time in 4 million years that carbon dioxide levels at the South Pole have passed the symbolic threshold of 400 parts per million.

Nearly 400 scientists have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to leave the Arctic Ocean out of a proposed oil and federal gas leasing program.

This year’s coral bleaching, the worst in the reef’s history, has adversely affected over 90 percent of the 1,400 mile structure, according to recent surveys.

The experiment could be the much-awaited breakthrough for scientists working to perfect carbon capture and sequestration techniques.

The 3-year-long campaign will help scientists ascertain how environmental forces affect coral reefs around the world, using state-of-the-art PRISM technology.

Last month, Arctic sea ice spread over an area of 4.63 million square miles — 537,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average.

Scientists may be able to use Mars as a parallel to learn more about Earth and the possibility of sending people to the red planet.

The most rapidly thinning glacier in East Antarctica has become “fundamentally unstable,” a study reveals.