For a few years, scientists have been warning that even if we hit Paris targets, we could cross several tipping points that ...

CFR’s Global Monetary Policy Tracker compiles data from 54 countries around the world to highlight significant global trends in monetary policy. Who is tightening policy? Who is loosening policy?

Could ocean currents ensure that global warming continues even after we have reached carbon-neutrality?  One of the concepts ...

The Ocean's Protective Blanket Oceans act like Earth's protective blanket, absorbing about 90% of the excess heat generated ...

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest reason our sea levels are rising. It's pretty surprising, but these icy places ...

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years, scientists have revealed. Back in the late 1980s, ocean temperatures were rising at a rate of about 0.06°C per decade, according ...

The global ocean “conveyor belt” circulation, shown in part here as ... that there might be some sort of critical thresholds of warming or CO2 change that can lead to very abrupt and ...

The way to slow down that warming is to start closing off the hot tap, by cutting global carbon emissions and moving towards net-zero." This accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's ...

The way to slow down that warming is to start closing off the hot tap, by cutting global carbon emissions and moving towards net-zero." This accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's ...

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that when carbon dioxide levels rise more gradually, they have less impact on the ocean circulation. UW News sat ...

The way to slow down that warming is to start closing off the hot tap, by cutting global carbon emissions and moving towards net-zero.” This accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's growing ...