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

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

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

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

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Leipzig University researchers find the Earth's vegetation balance point shifting northeast due to carbon emissions and Asian ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...

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

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 ...

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

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.