Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

One reason is that global temperatures were off-the-charts hot in 2023, with an average 1.45 °C of warming above the ...

Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing ...

The world’s oceans stow vast amounts of carbon dioxide. Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

Earth reached its warmest year on record in 2024, according to data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change ...

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images ...

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

If the abnormally warm temperature trend continues through December, 2024 could end up being the warmest year in recorded ...

Researchers identified hundreds of new species in 2024, expanding our knowledge of Earth’s startling biodiversity.

The transition in and out of the Late Palaeozoic ice age was one of the biggest climate transitions in Earth’s history, a ...