Waiting inside the club’s oak-paneled rooms were top executives from California’s major oil companies. They were the Air Pollution Foundation’s largest funders, and they were not happy. This frank ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

World leaders are converging Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan although the big ...

This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures ...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. At the U.N. climate conference in Azerbaijan, world leaders are gathered in ...

The last global scientific consensus on climate change was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...