A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East Wing. (Courtesy photo/Chip Clark) (CN) — Over the past ...

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally different from the world we know today. The parallels are unsettling. The question isn't just academic curiosity anymore.

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. (Credit ...

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 but by ice caps at the poles. For most of its 4.5 ...

The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit. It may have been a frigid January for much of the U.S., but that didn't stop the planet from breaking another temperature record. Earth just experienced its warmest January on record ...

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Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data alongside solar activity records and surface temperatures on ...