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

Climate processes could soon push us toward a “point of no return” and “substantially higher” temperatures.

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes ...

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Sharp changes could result in a cascade of subsystem interactions that would steer the planet toward extreme warming and sea ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

A new study of bald cypress trees reveals how ancient climate shifts, starting around 500 A.D., drastically shortened tree ...