The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, and oxygen that’s supercharged by anthropogenic climate change.

Climate change is making plastic pollution more mobile, toxic, and widespread, accelerating risks for wildlife, ecosystems, ...

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 ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...

Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

We've all had the thought — wouldn't it be nice if summer were just a little longer? Well, it might become a reality in the ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

(AP) - Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute ...

To assess risk from heat, scientists use the "wet bulb temperature," looking at the point where the human body isn't able to let enough heat out. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

"Venus is certainly a good example of one extremity of the greenhouse effect run amok." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There is ...