This weekend marks the occasion of the 97th annual Academy Awards. This year’s Oscars come on the heels of the January wildfires that devastated much of Los Angeles, scorching nearly 57,000 acres of ...

This weekend marks the occasion of the 97th annual Academy Awards. This year’s Oscars come on the heels of the January ...

Over 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a dramatic climate event known as the Sturtian glaciation, one of the most ...

The research, published Thursday, February 27, in the journal Science, found a strong connection between Earth’s axial tilt ...

Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

Earth’s climate follows a natural cycle of ice ages and warm periods. A new study shows that small orbital changes drive ...

The work elucidates how it came to pass. Obliquity causes variation in seasonality over a 41,000-year period, which affects how much total energy the higher latitudes get in summer. Precession changes ...

In a potential landmark action, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has privately urged the Trump administration ...

These new comics collections use satire, poetry, and science to shine a light on human failures — and who and what we need to ...

The researchers studied Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble to solve a problem that had stumped scientists for decades. View on ...

Heat waves have gotten hotter in the Northern Hemisphere in recent decades. Home to about 90% of the world's population, with ...