The world is warming. This fact is most often discussed for Earth's surface, where we live. But the climate is also changing ...

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 ...

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed ...

The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

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Climate change makes nitrous oxide disappear faster, creating new uncertainty for future climate and ozone predictions.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...