Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

Extraordinary marine temperatures. Before this past summer, 2022 was the ocean's warmest year on record. But in the summer of 2023, it managed to surpass that record. Ocean temperatures off the ...

Scientists outlined those grim milestones in a report released January 10 by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Multiple other global records were smashed throughout 2024 ...

A dire new report suggests time is almost up to avoid breaching the 1.5 °C warming limit—and the consequences could reshape ...

Overall, the researchers find that the global mean temperature has likely varied from a low of about 11° C, seen in the recent glacial periods, up to a high of 36° C, seen about 90 million years ...

Global temperature rises can cause “dangerous and cascading effects,” according to NASA, including heat stress to Earth’s denizens, including humans.

A new study takes an important step toward reconstructing a global history of water over the past 2,000 years. Using geologic and biologic evidence preserved in natural archives -- including 759 ...

Sunday was the hottest day in recorded history, according to preliminary data from a climate tracking agency monitoring temperatures since the mid-1900s. It’s the second consecutive year average ...

The average ocean temperature throughout May was 1.53 ... “With climate change and global ... The Inflation Reduction Act was once hailed as the biggest climate law in U.S. history.

Global temperatures defy expectations by hitting record high, again, ... Copernicus said it would be closely monitoring ocean temperatures throughout 2025 for hints about how the climate might behave.