Around 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a climate catastrophe so severe that ice sheets covered the planet from pole ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

During the Ordovician Period, a time of significant changes for Earth’s life-forms, plate tectonics and climate, the planet ...

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to ...

Scientists monitoring Earth’s climate have identified a concerning trend in global warming starting in April 2023. While ...

The 2024 state of the climate report shows 25 of the 35 vital signs scientists are monitoring are at their all-time worst ...

Nov. 14, 2024 — A new study determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste -- plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up ... Breakthrough in ...

Many climate-change experts say the second Trump administration's focus on the economy exposes Americans to more long-term ...

Climate scientists say the atmospheric warming, mainly from human burning of fossil fuels, is causing ever more extreme and ...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes ... calls for breaking up the federal agency that maintains weather data and collects climate change information. At the U.N. climate conference ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders who did show up that the world is seeing “a master class ...

Nov. 14, 2024 — Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single factor --immigration -- that can cause birds to pay close ...