At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Advancements in technology are allowing researchers to determine the extent to which climate change contributed to some ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

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 ...

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

Global CO2 levels have increased from 280 parts per million in Colonial times to 422.8 ppm in 2024. Editor at Large The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of ...

Harrison Ford rips into Donald Trump over climate change and says: 'I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.' ...

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, ...