One of the consequences of climate change is that weather events are becoming more extreme. In counterintuitive ways, like ...

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded the Crafoord Prize to climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan. He discovered a powerful force of global warming.

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...

Earth warmed by about 1.47 degrees Celsius in 2025, pushing the planet closer to what experts say is a dangerous threshold.

Mountain regions around the world are heating up faster than the lands below them, triggering dramatic shifts in snow, rain, ...

Earth’s oceans reached their highest heat levels on record in 2025, absorbing vast amounts of excess energy from the atmosphere. This steady buildup has accelerated since the 1990s and is now driving ...

The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.

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

The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm taking shape east of the Rockies might seem to conflict with life on a rapidly warming planet. But all of these things still happen, even ...

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

A new study from the University of Oxford suggests that intensifying global warming could push billions of people into ...

A new overnight warming shelter has opened in Ames, Iowa, to protect residents from dangerously cold weather. The shelter, called The Warming Place, operates out of Ames First United Methodist Church ...