Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened magnetic field, more harmful radiation would have reached Earth’s surface, ...

Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

In late June, we hosted this year's second Ars Live event, a conversation with climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, who holds ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

The analysis of global temperature trends at various regional and temporal dimensions has received considerable interest from the scientific community over the past century due to the growing ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Our climate seems to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than some researchers had hoped, meaning the world will ...

The report predicts that society will have emitted enough carbon dioxide by early 2028 that crossing an important long-term temperature boundary will be ... and the climate monitoring group Berkeley ...