Scientists warn Earth may be nearing irreversible climate tipping points as global emissions rise and action lags behind ...

It may become impossible to fix ...

Described as nature’s “self-repairing engine,” short-term species turnover isn’t increasing as scientists expect—and that’s a ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...

Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

A member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Alley was a co-recipient of the 2007 ...

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help ...

With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to grow food, filter water, and regulate the climate. Today, Bay Area scientists ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...