NASA scientist James Hansen took a courageous step by alerting the United States Congress to the growing danger of a warming planet in 1988. His warning, however, was largely dismissed at the time.

Research published Thursday in the Oxford Open Climate Change journal suggests the world will reach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. In addition to crossing ...

Five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most powerful ocean current on Earth. As it flows around ...