In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

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 ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

Climate change deniers inaccurately claim that Earth's rapidly rising temperatures are the mere product of natural cycles. Scientific experts have long explained that, although Earth does experience ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year was not only the hottest since record-keeping began in 1850 but was also the first to pass a threshold meant to limit ...

A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. Published in ...

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

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SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...