Last month, Earth dropped to its coldest temperature in 14 years. Antarctica’s Concordia research station recorded the frigid ...

Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the planet's climate has likely entered a frightening new phase. Under the ...

The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface is being created with ESA’s Envisat environmental satellite. The GLOBCOVER project aims at producing a global land cover map to a resolution ...

Over the past week we've witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP—or, more verbosely, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a paper published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature by Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, ...

organisations met in Tokyo last week, coming a significant step closer to achieving the goal of an integrated Earth monitoring network. The Japanese capital was the location of the fourth Group on ...

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 ...

Tipping elements of the Earth system should be considered global commons, researchers argue. Global commons cannot -- as they currently do -- only include the parts of the planet outside of national ...

A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended. From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than records set ...