Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

Mars has never looked more like a world in transition, with ice emerging as the quiet architect of its past and a crucial ...

The latest UN climate summit avoided even naming fossil fuels, while mounting evidence shows climate damage accelerating – ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

On the Big Island of Hawaii, a handful of low buildings sit on the side of a volcano, two miles above sea level. This remote outpost is one of the most important climate change research sites in the ...

The average temperature of the Earth is rising at nearly twice the rate it was 50 years ago. This rapid warming trend cannot be explained by natural cycles alone, scientists have concluded. The only ...