The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It's about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will ...

The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to ...

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

The paradox of our times is that our material progress has outpaced our intellectual, social and moral progress.

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...