A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.

The concept of a digital twin as a dynamic replica of a physical system is being adopted in many fields of science and industry to simulate and optimise performance, as computers become more powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New satellite data reveal Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more solar energy than the South, threatening to disrupt global ...

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites—and the ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. Instead of ...

To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...