The impacts ripple into human systems — reducing fishery yields, straining aquaculture and affecting industries that rely on stable ocean conditions.

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This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

In 2023, the world’s oceans experienced the most intense and widespread marine heatwaves ever recorded, with some events ...

Some of Earth's largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Two days this summer have been unusually short, with the shortest expected on Aug. 5, leading global timekeepers to consider ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The next 5 years are going to be Earth's warmest on record: WMO In 2024, the planet achieved an unwanted milestone when it broke the mark for the warmest year on record. Unfortunately, that record ...

Earth’s climate may be more sensitive to pollution from greenhouse gas emissions than we had hoped, which could mean limiting the rise in global temperature to less than 2°C will be more difficult.