Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating. It's been topic of ...

Earth’s climate has always been changing – but never like this. New research reveals that global temperature rises have accelerated at an unprecedented rate since 2015. In the new study, a ...

Global warming may be speeding up—scientists say the planet is heating nearly twice as fast as before, putting the 1.5°C limit at risk before 2030.

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Global warming has accelerated over the past decade, according to a new analysis of ...

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

Scientists warn Earth may be nearing irreversible climate tipping points as global emissions rise and action lags behind ...

The rate of global warming has surged since 2015 and is now nearly double what it was in the 1970s, according to a study 1 that tackles one of the hottest debates among climate scientists.

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 green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

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 ...

Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...