Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

Earth's largest waterfall, Denmark Strait cataract, is located in Arctic waters between Iceland and Greenland and is roughly ...

The new hall aimed to put the museum’s fossils in context by highlighting how Earth’s climate has changed over the past half-a-billion years. For example, several specimens—including fossilized palm ...

Earth's average surface temperature is rising so quickly that on both a micro and macro scale, the planet is struggling to keep up —and some of its warming patterns are begetting more warming ...

The only way for 2024 to not be the warmest year on Earth, scientists said, is if the average temperature anomaly dropped to almost zero for the remainder of the year — which is highly unlikely.

Earth’s surface temperature heating more rapidly than it has in past 485 million years, scientists say Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing ...

An important paper was recently published in Science on “A 485 Million Year History of Earth’s Surface Temperature” by Emily Judd and others. This long-term record of Earth’s temperature ...

Palm trees in Alaska, crocodiles in Wyoming: Fossils show that Earth’s temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. Now a new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.