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

The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs. Scientists have solved a 66 million-year-old mystery, explaining how Earth ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Scientists are uncovering how climate change influences seismic activity, volcanic hazards and extreme weather, as Michael Allen uncovers ...

New research shows mountain birds move up and down slopes to save energy, find food, and avoid competition across seasons.

Global heat records are no longer abstract charts; they are reshaping daily life in Texas. With 2025 ranking as the planet’s ...

New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...