Earth reaches its closest point to the Sun in early January, a phenomenon known as perihelion. Despite this proximity, the ...

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

A new study confirms that the planet harbors a 'stabilizing feedback' mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to keep global temperatures within a steady, habitable range. The Earth's ...

PARIS—Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the preindustrial era in the 12 months ending January, the first time temperatures averaged over a yearlong period have breached ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late 1700s through 1849 compared with 1850-1900 — the latter being what scientists ...

Yakutia in Russia’s far east is considered the world’s most cold inhabited region on Earth. Recently, the region is grappling ...