As the climate warms, drought conditions are intensifying in many parts of the world. The effects of hydrological drought on ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate, scientists turn to Earth’s past to understand future changes. Glaciers, vast ice ...

A new study combines historical observations, climate modeling, and data from tree rings to create a fuller picture of ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ... Jan. 16, 2025 — Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was ...

Ongoing temperature recordings using thermometers have shown a clear warming of the Earth's temperature over the past few decades ... The degree to which the climate warms in the future will ...

For comparison, a given location on Earth experiences a total solar eclipse only once every 360 years, on average. A wide variety of conjunctions and configurations involving the planets occur ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — A new climate modeling study presents a new ... Feb. 22, 2023 — Countless meteorites have struck Earth in the past and shaped the history of our planet. It is assumed, for ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Climate change is usually blamed for today's wild floods – including the extreme deluge in Spain last year. But despite the common narrative, recent flooding events cannot solely be attributed ...

"For us in the paleobiology field, this model is the equivalent to climate ... that reveal past temperatures and environmental conditions. Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling ...