I consider myself pretty conversant in metric units. I know that 20 kilograms is 44 pounds (double it and add 10%) and that five kilometers is a little over three miles (I’ve, uh, run a lot of 5Ks).

Limiting global warming this century to just 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures would be a boon to the planet’s biodiversity. This lower warming threshold, compared with warming of 2 ...

Two years later, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established to stabilize the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at a level that would “prevent dangerous ...

How much warming do climate scientists really think is in store for our future, if they had to put a number on it? World leaders gathering for the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week ...

The planet could see 2 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers ...

There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius. That's the global climate change goal world leaders agreed ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5℃ has opened a window to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but carbon ...

Cold weather continued at Doi Inthanon National Park, with temperatures dropping to 3 degrees Celsius at the summit ...

Coldwave conditions gripped Jharkhand on Tuesday, with Gumla recording 2.4 degrees Celsius, the IMD said. The mercury dipped ...

Ahmedabad: The city's minimum temperature on Friday was 15.3 degrees celsius, which was 3 degrees above normal. The maximum ...

It's a hopeful sign. Pfizer announced that its Covid-19 vaccine could be 90 percent effective. That could really help us get past this darned pandemic. But there's a catch. The vaccine is based on ...