In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

Earth’s climate system is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization, which points out how human-driven warming is ...

Fifty-six years after the first one rallied 20 million people across America, “we need to do things that make us feel more ...

Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a surprising new chapter in Earth’s climate story, stretching back 3 million years. By ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raising the Foro Drill, Allan Hills, Antarctica. 2022-2023. (CREDIT: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX) At the edge of East Antarctica, ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Millions of people around the world will pause Wednesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event ...

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 ...

Past and future trends in global mean temperature spanning the last 67 million years. Oxygen isotope values in deep-sea benthic foraminifera from sediment cores are a measure of global temperature and ...