It may become impossible to fix ...

Described as nature’s “self-repairing engine,” short-term species turnover isn’t increasing as scientists expect—and that’s a ...

New research shows climate change may push monarch butterflies farther south and make their long migration harder in the ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

The latest anomaly in the climate system that can’t be fully explained by researchers is a record annual jump in the global mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured in 2024. The ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

Leipzig University researchers find the Earth's vegetation balance point shifting northeast due to carbon emissions and Asian ...

As the summer of 2024 is on track to become the hottest on record, scientists are digging deep into the Earth's coldest corners to recover an icy record of what the atmosphere was like hundreds of ...

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history so why do a few degrees concern us now? If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our ...