This week the world sweltered as the record for hottest-ever global temperature was shattered, first on Monday, then again on Tuesday. On July 4, Independence Day in the U.S., the average global ...

The coldest capital in the world has an average annual temperature of about minus 1.3 degrees Celsius, and could be frozen in ...

The Indian Ocean is the warmest ocean in the world because it receives intense sunlight throughout the year, has limited cold ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring ...

Three strikes and you’re out is a pretty good rule. And the politicians and negotiators attending the Paris climate summit, “COP21”, in December 2015 were facing their third strike. Their first and ...

Visitors to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, will be able to skip temperature checks at the park from May 16. The company has announced on its website that it’ll be phasing out on-site ...

Scientists are warning about a rise in extreme temperatures, according to a new study. Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images It’s becoming increasingly likely that the world will break a ...

It's one of the most well-known weather records. But it has also long been questioned by meteorologists. Here's the latest ...

Two seemingly different areas of physics are related in subtle ways: Quantum theory and thermodynamics. How can the laws of thermodynamics arise from the laws of quantum physics? This question has now ...