In social media, President Trump is questioning global warming because of a chilly severe winter storm hitting the U.S.

The EU’s Earth observation service Copernicus said that on this basis the threshold would be breached by 2030, more than a decade earlier than was expected at the time of the 2015 Paris agreement, ...

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

Global surface temperature is the average temperature of the Earth’s surface at a given time. It is a combination of the near ...

Earth’s physical systems are shifting at a pace that would have seemed implausible a generation ago, from record heat to ...

Ancient sediments reveal how rapid warming collapsed Arctic forests in centuries, triggering fires, erosion, and long-lasting ...

This week saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees ...

Earth and Environmental Sciences professor Leigh Stearns said that there is “a lot of evidence” that extreme climatic events ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

Greenland sits at the center of a striking climate contrast, even as sea levels rise across almost every other part of Earth. As global temperatures climb, glaciers and ice sheets melt faster, and ...