56 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and ...

Depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer is slowing, according to a study scheduled for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At a press conference, the scientists who conducted the study ...

Cold-water corals, and the species Lophelia pertusa in particular, are the architects of complex reef structures. They build the foundations of important habitats for deep-sea organisms that find ...

Tropical rainforests, considered the lungs of the Earth for their capacity to work as major carbon cleansers, are under threat. A recent study by scientists at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences ...

With the sweltering months of June and July fast approaching, I decided last week that it was time to dig through my closet and pull out my summer clothes. While I was searching through dressers and ...

Tropical marine low clouds play a crucial role in regulating Earth's climate. However, whether they mitigate or exacerbate global warming has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers have developed a ...

It was one of the biggest climate change questions of the early 2000s: Had the planet’s rising fever stalled, even as humans pumped more heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere? By the turn of the ...

Global warming is turning Greenland green. Parts of Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers that melted over the past three decades have been replaced by wetlands, shrub vegetation and areas of barren rock ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Wim Carton receives funding for his work on carbon removal from the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), the Swedish Energy Agency, the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) and the eco-documentary KISS THE GROUND have collaborated to bring new, science-based lesson plans and resources to ...

XPRIZE Carbon Removal winners from Mati Carbon, Founder & CEO Shantanu Agarwal, left, and Chief Science Officer Jake Jordan, visit the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, April 22, ...