Global surface temperature is the average temperature of the Earth’s surface at a given time. It is a combination of the near ...

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet.

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed ...

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For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit. It may have been a frigid January for much of the U.S., but that didn't stop the planet from breaking another temperature record.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...