When charted on a graph, 2023, 2024 and 2025 "seemed to jump up," said NOAA climate monitoring chief Russ Vose. When averaged ...

Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise ...

Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate ...

2025 was the third hottest year on record, but thousands of cities saw record heat and one broke a record for cold.

The rise of AI scientists, missions to explore the moons of Earth and Mars and a massive ocean-floor drill are among the developments set to shape research in 2026. Next year will also bring ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

Scientists have uncovered tens of thousands of previously unseen earthquakes beneath Yellowstone, a reminder that one of the ...

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as ...

The finding comes as the U.S. reverses rules meant to lower carbon pollution and walks away from international climate ...

Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the ...

Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.