A team of researchers says oxygen isotopes found in rock types contain the oldest geochemical record of the Earth. A collective understanding of five different data sets show that, all the way back to ...

The combined impact of a strong El Niño and climate change has officially pushed ocean surface temperatures past the record ...

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...

Earth now is hotter than it’s been at any time in recorded history. Average global temperatures shattered records on two consecutive days last week, reaching 17.09° Celsius on July 21 and then inching ...

Earth's global average sea surface temperature has reached record-breaking high levels over the past week as El Niño gains strength in the Pacific Ocean.

It's official: 2024 was the planet's warmest year on record, according to an analysis by scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Along with historic heat, ...

Summers can be hot in Death Valley, California. In fact, it has long held the title of hottest place on Earth. Especially on Sunday, August 16 and—again—on June 17, 2021. The mercury spiked to a ...

The average global air temperature recorded 2 metres above Earth’s surface was 17.18°C (62.92°F) on 4 July, the highest that ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...