Climate change deniers inaccurately claim that Earth's rapidly rising temperatures are the mere product of natural cycles. Scientific experts have long explained that, although Earth does experience ...

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 ...

A team of researchers says oxygen isotopes found in rock types contain the oldest geochemical record of the Earth. A collective understanding of five different data sets show that, all the way back to ...

Global temperature records go back less than two centuries. But that doesn’t mean we have no idea what the world was doing before we started building thermometers. There are various things—tree rings, ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...

The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the global average since the late 1970s. 20°C above the ...

Researchers have discovered a change in what scientists already knew about global warming dynamics. It had been widely accepted since the 1950s that global temperature rises were not consistent ...

Parts of the ocean reached temperatures of -15°C (5°F) without freezing 717-660 million years ago, geologists and geochemists have concluded. These conditions explain some puzzling banded iron ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 22, 2024, 01:51pm EDT Sep 27, 2024, 12:28am EDT Reconstructed ...