Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

It never used to be possible to attribute individual weather events to climate change and map their full consequences. Thanks ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the ...

Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet.

Dr. Victor is a professor of innovation and public policy at the University of California, San Diego, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. On its face, 2025 looks like a year ...

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...

The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts. In one way, it felt very quiet in the United States. No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015. And, for about three weeks ...

Something extraordinary happened near the end of the last Ice Age, when mammoths still roamed and early hunter gatherers were spreading across new continents. A growing group of researchers now argues ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...