Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans ...

The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never ...

Rising CO₂ levels are threatening global health and food security by reducing crop nutrients. Learn how this impacts ...

A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfires, droughts, floods ...

Did you know that the current CO2 concentration in the Earth's atmosphere has peaked in the last million years? A further ...

When the people of Lahaina, Maui, awakened to high winds on Aug. 8, 2023, their first worry was how high the surf might get. Instead, fire devastated their entire town and took the lives of 100.

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for a ...