Yet despite the cold temperatures over the continent, the planet as a whole has set a new temperature record yet again: January 2025 was the hottest January ever measured on planet Earth. The European ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

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

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it didn't has climate researchers worried.

Although the climate goals set by the Paris Agreement are based on the long-term average temperature, one year of high ...