New research reduces uncertainty in future climate change linked to the stratosphere, with important implications for life on Earth. A significant source of uncertainty relates to future changes to ...

The new study provides unambiguous evidence that the inner core began to decrease its speed around 2010, moving slower than the Earth's surface. USC scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core ...

The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth some ...

But the research was controversial even before it was published, and it may widen the rifts in the climate science community and in the broader public conversation about the severity and imminence of ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...

2023 was always going to be a hot year, given that warmer El Niño conditions were superimposed on the long-term trend of climate change driven by our greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s not clear ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? A new study analyzing decades of seismogram data shows that physical changes can ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, ...