Some climates are widespread and common, sprawling over vast areas. Others are more fragmented, emerging as isolated pockets amid different climatic zones, reminiscent of islands in a vast ocean of ...

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

There’s been a lot of discussion about how Earth’s climate is changing. But our planet is home to a variety of climates, and each contributes and reacts to changes in different ways. Earth’s varied ...

A recent study demonstrates how dripstones can be crucial for reconstructing past climates. The new approach can provide a detailed picture of the climate around early human occupations in South ...

Scientists have known that climate influences soil chemistry—and, in particular, soil pH, a measure of acidity or alkalinity. In dry climates, soil is alkaline; in wet climates, it’s acidic. But what ...

Within a century, half of the world’s climates as we know them will have vanished forever as a direct result of global warming, taking thousands of species with them. These are the gloomy projections ...

Humans are a tropical species. We have lived in warm climates for most of our evolutionary history, which might explain why so many of us spend winter huddled under a blanket, clutching a hot water ...

Life exists in every conceivable environment on Earth, from the peaks of towering mountains to the remote stretches of isolated islands, from sunlit surfaces to the darkest depths of the oceans. Yet, ...