Cleaning up air pollution has saved millions of lives, but it has also given us an inadvertent taste of a nightmare climate ...

"These differences in timing can have surprising ecological, evolutionary and even economic consequences." Our current ...

Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...

For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial specks hit the upper atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, they burn and melt ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

From rising global temperatures to the fast-warming Arctic, early climate models predicted the changes half a century ago.

Scientists have found new evidence that a massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago. Tiny particles detected in ocean sediment cores suggest that dust ...

A previously untapped source of data sheds new light on the climate of the early Earth: fossilized dinosaur teeth show that the atmosphere during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago ...