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

Ice cores show Earth’s climate stayed in a stable range for thousands of years, until human emissions triggered a sudden spike in global temperatures. In this interview with climate scientist Dr.

El Nino warps weather worldwide. Meteorologists say the natural El Nino cycle is both adding to and feeling the heat of a ...

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

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

The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the global average since the late 1970s. 20°C above the ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...

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