How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While this works well, natural variation can make it harder to see longer-term ...

New research from Boston University reveals that while warmer summers can speed up tree growth, declining snowpack may slow ...

Declining snow accumulation in the mountains of the Northeastern U.S. will likely reduce the ability of forests to act as a ...

The world is on course to trigger several climate "tipping points" if global government policies stay on their current course, according to a new study April 23.

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

Solar System; Earth; The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it. ... Supernovas may have triggered life-threatening changes in ancient Earth's climate.

While there is no official definition, most scientists and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change understand the goal to be a long-term average temperature, over 20 or 30 years.

Seven years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the world wouldn’t warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels until 2040. Then two years ago, the ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.