How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than some researchers had hoped, meaning the world will ...

Rain comes when water molecules in the atmosphere clump together to form ice crystals or water droplets that are heavy enough to fall to the ground. But what causes that clumping to happen?

The winning Earth Photo 2025 went to Lorenzo Poli, for 'Autophagy': which shows a stark black-and-white photograph taken at ...

The report predicts that society will have emitted enough carbon dioxide by early 2028 that crossing an important long-term ...

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. By Raymond Zhong and Mira Rojanasakul Credit Mira Rojanasakul/The New York ...

New research analyzing isotopes from ancient African remains reveals how societies adapted strategies to survive major climate change.

If scientists of the 19th century could have used modern tools to study the atmosphere, they might have noticed the early ...