A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 2023's weather has been extreme in many ways. AP Photo/Michael Probst Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme ...

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 ...

A graph arguing that our current climate isn’t in a period of “unprecedented warmth” went viral when it was retweeted by Jordan Peterson, a controversial psychologist and author, to his 3.7 million ...

If you were to compare Earth today with the planet 485 million years ago, when would it be warmer? A new research study charting temperatures over nearly half a million years reveals the surprising ...

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth’s vital signs blinking red.

Editor's note: This report was published on Jan. 1. In early January, data was released further confirming that 2023 was Earth's hottest year on record. It's a moment scientists have warned about for ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able ...