Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth ... dioxide into the atmosphere, Earth’s climate has been warming at an accelerating rate. This rise in temperature directly impacts the polar ...

The Earth’s oceans have never been warmer ... They are also intensifying fires and flooding by increasing land temperatures, and could make hurricanes stronger. Here, we take you on a tour ...

The new curve, published Sept. 19 in Science, reveals that Earth’s temperature has varied more than previously thought as life has diversified, populated land and endured multiple mass extinctions.

Air temperatures are impacted by circulation of the rising and sinking of air masses into the atmosphere, as well as from wind movement across the landscape, according to NASA. Land skin ...