Reconstructed surface air temperature (left) and rainfall amount (right) during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum warming event, 56 million years ago. The maps were created by blending geological ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.

The impacts of climate change are being felt all over the world, but how will it impact how your hometown feels? An interactive web application from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are ...

Chris Brierley received support from the Met Office to a run the hackathon during which the initial idea for this research arose. Hannah Woodward does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters. The bad news is that things are going to get a ...

Colorado's ski areas could lose weeks of skiing this century as climate change continues, according to a 2017 study published that calculated how ski season durations at resorts across the U.S. would ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...