Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Coastal communities across the U.S. are seeing some of the fastest sea level changes ever recorded, according to a new VIMS' ...

Carbon dioxide emissions increased 1.1% in 2024 due mainly to a 1.8% increase in emissions from the Asia-Pacific region, ...

It’s perverse, almost a joke of the cosmos: the same policies that saved millions from toxic air in East Asia have helped push the planet toward record-breaking heat. Since the past 15 years, as China ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer better tools for mapping subsurface layers used in energy and waste storage.

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Efforts to clean up air pollution in China and across East Asia may have inadvertently contributed to a spike in global warming, a new study has found. The decline in aerosol emissions — which can ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

As China slashed sulfur dioxide emissions by roughly 75 percent, a new study finds Earth began warming much, much faster.