A fossil site in central Tibet — the youngest known remains of ocean-dwelling creatures in the region — has offered clues to ...

The 2023-24 El Niño brought simultaneous extreme heat and drought to 75% of tropical forests. A new study in Earth’s Future, ...

Penguin poop is fertilizing snow algae blooms along the Antarctic Peninsula, feeding dense green algae patches along the ...

Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, ...

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Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limit global warming under the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, according to a new study in ...

WASHINGTON — At only an inch long, the sand hoppers skipping across California’s Isla Vista Beach at dawn don’t exactly look like a force of nature. But a new study reveals that these shrimp-like ...

WASHINGTON — Mercury’s surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds that Mercury may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previously ...

WASHINGTON — The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed assessment of the state of the warming Arctic, will continue under its independent editorial team — led by researchers at the Cooperative ...

WASHINGTON — 66 million years ago, the six-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid crash-landed in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and changed life on Earth forever. The reign of the dinosaurs ended, and only ...

WASHINGTON — The number of wildfires burning in the Western United States each year dropped roughly 28% over the past three decades, even as annual burned area and damage from wildfires have soared. A ...

Up to now, most analyses of global warming have indicated a fairly steady rise in the average global temperature of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade since the 1970s. Recently, however, scientists ...