For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New satellite data reveal Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more solar energy than the South, threatening to disrupt global ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

A new study by UC Davis and Chinese researchers shows how extraterrestrial forces move Earth's climate into a glacial phase both over the last 34 million years and 300 million years. Recent rapid ...

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Earth’s radiation budget through lunar observations. This method promises to overcome many of the limitations faced by current satellite systems, offering a comprehensive, consistent, and ...

Reducing air pollution has paradoxically accelerated global warming by removing sunlight-reflecting particles, a phenomenon akin to a mild “termination shock.” Large-scale geoengineering schemes, such ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...