Scientists have long warned of the effects of global warming from human-made greenhouse gases and the properties they possess. It's estimated the planet warmed nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit between 1850 ...

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.

On the universal curve, performance climbs steadily as organisms warm until they reach an optimal temperature where activity ...

As another sultry air mass surges up the Eastern Seaboard this weekend, May is picking up where April left off – with summer-like temperatures and even some humidity. According to the calendar, summer ...

The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and “catastrophic” migration away from coastlines, even if the world pulls off the miraculous and ...

Some 600 experts began to work Monday on the next major UN climate report, as the international consensus on global warming ...

— -- Rising carbon emissions might kill off the ocean's coral reefs by 2050, scientists warn in today's edition of the journal Science. The review article, co-authored by 17 marine scientists in ...

Live fast, die young—or live long and hedge your bets? These are two of the strategies that the world’s non-migratory, non-marine bird species have employed throughout evolutionary history to survive ...

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene dumped trillions of gallons of water hundreds of miles inland, devastating communities nestled in mountains far from the threat of storm surge or sea level ...

“There’s very little that we’re observing that gives us hope here,” one study author said. “There’s very little that we’re observing that gives us hope here,” one study author said. “There’s very ...