New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the gradual breakdown of silicate rocks played the leading role in regulating Earth’s ...

Every fraction of a degree of warming edges Earth towards triggering all kinds of climate tipping points, and the report lays ...

Coral reefs have passed their survival limit, confirming Earth’s first tipping point and signaling more irreversible climate ...

A new study found that efforts to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases that started 10 years ago with the Paris climate ...

Climate data in a report published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate.gov website found that the sun’s solar activity, including overall brightness and sunspot ...

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, ...

Earth Day began 55 years ago on this date, April 22, 1970, in the United States. The movement was spearheaded by student activist Denis Hayes who was recruited by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Wilson to ...

As global temperatures rise, extreme weather is forcing families from their homes. Floods, hurricanes and melting glaciers are displacing communities across the planet. Some scientists are researching ...

Several of California’s Sierra glaciers that persisted through the Holocene are now on track to vanish within this century.

The blast of cold that fueled record snowfall across Gulf Coast beaches last week was just the latest to transport frigid air that normally swirls above the North Pole to places much farther south - a ...

For all of us concerned about the climate, 2023 was a grim year. One of the biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate change is the impact of clouds. Michael Allen speaks to the physicists ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...