The planet’s thermometer has eclipsed a critical boundary, reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above pre-industrial times over a 12-month period, according to the ...

Hotter temperatures are more effective at evaporating water out of plants and soil, leading to droughts and failed crop seasons. At the same time, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, which ...

Many climate scientists have also long been clear-eyed that hitting 1.5 degrees of warming was inevitable. “I could tell 20 years ago that we were going to pass this threshold,” said Schrag ...

As the farthest full moon from the sun all year and one of the lowest in the sky, this year's Buck Moon is a special one ...

According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of ...

As the planet gets hotter, animals and the pathogens they carry are relocating, and diseases are cropping up in places they’ve never been found before. As planet warms, scientists fear spike in ...

Researchers believe they finally know what causes the Atlantic Warming Hole, a spot in the ocean which is cooling despite ...

Over the next decade, teams will digitize DNA of the 1.8 million named plant, animal, fungi and single-celled eukaryote species on the planet. By the end of 2022, the scientists plan on sequencing ...

The Frontiers Planet Prize has today announced 19 National Champions from science research teams across five continents – exceptional scientists with breakthrough solutions that can be scaled up ...

LONDON (AP) — Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. You’re likely to pinpoint a spot ...