Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

Rain gauges did not exist millions of years ago. Instead, researchers turn to indirect clues left behind in rocks, soils, and ...

In 2025, Earth’s oceans quietly hit a new heat record, absorbing a staggering 23 Zetta Joules of energy, roughly equivalent ...

That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The ...

A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations ...

As the summer of 2024 is on track to become the hottest on record, scientists are digging deep into the Earth's coldest corners to recover an icy record of what the atmosphere was like hundreds of ...

The marvels of the Grand Canyon extend beyond its dramatic scenery. Underground, vast cave systems hold clues to the region’s ...

The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year's surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the ...

Many tipping elements are now well-known: the Amazon rainforest, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history so why do a few degrees concern us now? If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our ...

Ancient horsetail plants produce water with unusual oxygen isotopes, offering scientists a new tool to reconstruct Earth’s climate history and understand humidity patterns from millions of years ago.