Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an ...

AI leaders boast about their models’ superhuman technical abilities. The technology can predict protein structures, create ...

Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 700,000 additional deaths by 2050 and ...

Scientists disagree whether human-made climate change or natural fluctuations are mostly to blame for worse-than-expected ...

A study says warming has accelerated in the last decade, with temperatures rising nearly twice as fast as they did between 1970 and 2015.

Researchers say we must stop treating physical inactivity as a personal failure and fix our broken systems instead.

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply most of their energy, leaving corals weakened and often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A map of ocean temperature anomalies (differences from normal) during a strong El Niño. Red colors mean the ocean water is warmer ...

Is your idea of El Niño and La Niña mainly informed by a 1990s-era Chris Farley sketch from “Saturday Night Live?” The late comedian’s definition was hilarious, albeit a bit lacking in scientific ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Climate change threatens winter snowpack that millions rely on for water, crops, and irrigation — a far greater ...

If you think of Earth’s climate system as a backyard swing that’s been gently swaying for millennia, then human-caused global warming is like a sudden shove strong enough to disrupt the usual arc and ...