Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes Erin Wunderlich Researcher Ingrid Romero holds a case full of pollen slides at the ...

Dangerous climate tipping points will threaten food, water and coastlines. They’re irreversible and only radically ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an international coalition with contribution from the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

Large areas of the world could soon become unrecognizable if global temperatures continue to rise. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. From the loss of coral reefs to the ...

Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. However, a new review published in Science by an international team led by the ...