Dai’s initial results have revealed that rainfall was low in South Africa during the last glacial maximum and increased as ...

Research shows Mars' gravitational pull affects Earth's deep-sea currents and climate, causing warming cycles every 2.4 ...

A pair of scorched worlds circling the red dwarf TRAPPIST-1 now offer one of the clearest looks yet at what life may be up ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that Mars exerts a subtle yet measurable influence on Earth’s orbit, ...

As the summer of 2024 is on track to become the hottest on record, scientists are digging deep into the Earth's coldest corners to recover an icy record of what the atmosphere was like hundreds of ...

Even below the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold, California reservoirs no longer fill in some years and overflow with extreme ...

Two of our planet's most serious environmental issues ‒ microplastics and global warming ‒ have collided in a new scientific ...

New research that microplastics absorb more sunlight than they reflect, significantly heating the Earth's atmosphere.

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

Earth Day, which began in 1970, is celebrated each year on April 22.