Earth’s surface temperature is climbing at roughly 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade, nearly double the rate recorded before 2015, according to a peer-reviewed study by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year was not only the hottest since record-keeping began in 1850 but was also the first to pass a threshold meant to limit ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The slice you see cut out of the Earth reveals its core, depicted here in bright yellow. fhm/E+ via Getty Images Our Earth is ...

Ancient ice records show Earth’s oceans cooled over millions of years despite stable greenhouse gases, highlighting the role of oceans.

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 ...

A study published in Science Advances demonstrates, through experiments conducted at very high pressure and high temperature at the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), that ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...