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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jargon is hard to decipher. And when it comes to climate science, it's rife. So, we've teamed up with top climate experts to ...

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 ...

Nov. 5, 2024 — At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct ...

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 ...

The major focus of the negotiations is climate finance, which is rich nations trying to help poor countries pay for ...