Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an ...
The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it’s usually bad news for species that depend on each other — like flowers blooming too early and pollina ...
Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that ...
The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used ...
Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...
Meteorologists say the United States is getting hit by almost every kind of extreme weather at once, as spring air masses collide and the jet stream twists.
Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected ...
The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...
Why would a warming climate change the length of a day? Earth still turns once every 24 hours by the clocks people live by, ...
When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants are falling out of sync with each other. Ecosystems are fraying. Coral ...
A recent study reveals Antarctic microbes can produce energy from atmospheric gases at temperatures as low as -20°C through a ...