Europe secures funding for new Copernicus satellites: enhanced monitoring of climate, emissions, and oceans from space.

For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that ...

Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023. Several climate monitoring ...

The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world is losing fresh water at an ...

Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here's everything you need to know about these "points of no ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

With only 7.5% of Earth's surface covered in fertile, agricultural soil, it's critically important to maintain the soil to grow food, filter water, and regulate the climate. Today, Bay Area scientists ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...

That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The researchers said some of the heat waves they studied in 2025 were 10 times more ...