Global Temperature

El Nino, La Nina vary in durations and its effects are powerful enough to alter global temperatures

Forecasting the beginning of an episode is now possible several months in advance, enabling some degree of preparation for agriculture or water management.

Over the past three decades, the South Pole is warming at more than three times the global average

The study suggested that warming was mainly driven by natural tropical climate variability and likely intensified by increases in greenhouse gas.

World Environment Day 2020: Cleaning India’s air pollution — damned if we do, damned if we don’t?

Air pollution causes respiratory problems. Ironically, so might a too-rapid pollution clean up.

Melting permafrost emissions pose serious threat to climate rescue plans: Study

Some studies claim we have already overshot the 1.5 degree Celsius target due to thawing permafrost.

UN goal to prevent increase in global temperature almost impossible to achieve, says study

The historic agreement reached at last year's UN conference in Paris to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Revolution levels is almost impossible to achieve, says a study.

Global temperature records now available on Google Earth