Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In ...

A report released today by the World Meteorological Organization shows that temperature warming in Asia has increased fast ...

In a paper published today, Sept. 19, in the journal Science, a team of researchers, including paleobiologists Scott Wing and Brian Huber from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today ...

Throughout the eon, the curve shows that the global mean surface temperature has fluctuated between 52 and 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Earth’s current global mean surface temperature is 59 degrees ...

The world has warmed even more than we thought, according to a new dataset suggesting the temperature rise since pre-industrial times is 6 per cent higher than previous estimates.

Data show that global average temperatures have risen 1.5 degrees C since the 1850s and the claim that the planet has cooled by four degrees Celsius since medieval times is not supported by ...

Source: “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature”, E.J. Judd et al. Temperatures are averages for geological periods. Shaded area shows values with a 68% probability.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Global warming has tripled the duration of marine heat waves since 1940. A model comparing historical sea surface temperatures with current data revealed that ...

Science Average Global Temperature Has Warmed 1.5 Degrees Celsius Above Pre-industrial Levels for 12 Months in a Row New data shows the planet’s fever stayed above a crucial target for a full ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a ...