Ice cores are a vertical column of ice extracted from glaciers and ice-sheets; they hold records of what the planet was like ...

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...

Over the course of our planet's long history, Earth's climate has seen some dramatic shifts-and it will only continue to change. Our world is warming quickly due to large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

The pilot phase of the Irish Weather Rescue Project has already seen 300 volunteers transcribing almost 10,000 months of ...

Last summer, marked by deadly extreme heat and devastating wildfires, was the warmest in at least 2,000 years, according to new research, which analyzed weather data and tree rings to reconstruct a ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our planet’s temperature has made wild swings. In fact, the Earth used to be completely ...

About three hundred years ago a rural farming community in the Shetland Islands, Britain’s northernmost group of islands, was overwhelmed by windblown sand. The environmental catastrophe was probably ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. Climate change has strayed from being a ...

King Charles III and Prince William attended a joint engagement at the Natural History Museum in London on Thursday, ...