The metric called ‘biological age’ takes a person’s health into consideration, and therefore can be higher or lower than their chronological age. The pace at which a person’s biological age changes ...

Several of the Earth’s systems are changing faster than predicted as global temperatures rise, scientists say.

Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...

Wonders of Sodor players have beaten the real world speed record for a steam train, held by Mallard since 1938.

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate ...

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation at record speeds, causing GPS timing errors and navigation delays on your ...

"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.

New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.

Accelerating sea level rise driven by warming oceans and melting ice threatens coastal cities worldwide, placing up to a billion people at risk before the end of the century.