Presently, the Earth's average global temperature is about 59 degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than much of the Phanerozoic era. However, human-induced climate change is driving temperature increases at ...

Scientists have recorded the coldest temperature in Earth’s history—but some experts warn that temperatures could drop even lower in the future. What caused this extreme freeze, and could we ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have severe and irreversible impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, data ...

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 ...

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought. A new temperature timeline that combines geologic data with computational simulations reveals ...

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