Sharks and rays have populated the world's oceans for around 450 million years, but more than a third of the species living ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Scientists say the unfolding El Niño event superimposed on long-term global warming is a primary driver of this huge spike in ...

As the Arctic rapidly warms, the temperature difference between the polar region and lower latitudes decreases, which weakens ...

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880." ...

Jan. 27, 2025 — An interdisciplinary team of researchers has projected that if the rate of global CO2 emissions continues to increase and reaches a high emission scenario, sea levels would as a ...

A new attribution analysis found that climate heating caused by burning fossil fuels significantly increased the likelihood ...

For the first time, researchers have found oceans help cool global temperatures more than anyone previously thought. Here's ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an ...

When Stanford researchers began tracking a group of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, they were trying to answer a simple question about their migration pattern. Now, they've wound up generating far bigger ...

Researchers have discovered that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming. While greenhouse gases continue to cause temperatures to rise, a reduction in low-cloud cover over land has ...

This year we could exceed the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C of global warming for the first time. Here's why this limit matters and what crossing it could mean for life on Earth and in Switzerland ...