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 view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Earth’s simmering hot streak has stretched 11 months, with April breaking yet another global temperature record. It was warmer than any April on record, with an average surface temperature of 59.05 ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists ...