As the United Nations conference on climate change gets underway Monday in Paris, one temperature that will be on everyone's minds is 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Although it might ...

The goal of international climate negotiations is “to avoid dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.” In 2010, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ...

When the Paris Climate Agreement is signed in New York City on Earth Day, leaders and dignitaries from more than 150 countries around the world will begin pursuing efforts to limit global temperature ...

Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly 6 degrees Centigrade lower than the average temperature from then to ...

tl;dr version: You can vote on the first story I’ll report as part of this new series on 2 degrees Celsius – which is the agreed-upon threshold for dangerous climate change. Go here if you don’t see ...

Climate data is a fussy thing, with a bunch of different organizations measuring data against a bunch of different baselines. But all of them agree on one thing: Last month, the Earth endured a heat ...

An activist at the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 Paris climate talks signals her support for the 1.5 degree temperature target. The hand signal, displayed with an "OK" sign with one's right hand, five fingers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly ...