Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

The planet could be approaching a climatic threshold beyond which warming accelerates beyond human control, researchers have ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

Concrete is all around you—in the foundation of your home, the bridges you drive over, the sidewalks and buildings of cities. It is often described as the second-most used material by volume on Earth ...

A new study of bald cypress trees reveals how ancient climate shifts, starting around 500 A.D., drastically shortened tree ...