To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Purposefully sinking boreal trees could help lock away carbon for millennia or longer, but the audacious plan comes with ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

A science-oriented advocacy group moved its “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight, saying the Earth is closer than ever to destruction.

The idea that brutal winter conditions of this kind mean that climate change isn’t happening is a misconception.

Could the answers we seek to defeat the climate crisis be right under our feet? Producing compounds that are integral to the ...

A warmer atmosphere has the potential to hold more moisture, which can contribute to heavier precipitation in any season, scientists say.

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

The United States is the only country to pull out of the global agreement among nations to fight climate change. European ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.