Data visualizations are some of the most powerful tools in a climate science communicator’s playbook. The most famous have taken on enormous symbolic value—like the “Hockey Stick” graph showing rising ...

Large parts of England are set to swelter in heatwave temperatures later this month. Weather maps have turned orange and red indicating hot weather is on the horizon. According to WX Charts, 37 ...

A "scorching" Ibieran heatwave will sizzle the UK within days. Temperature charts show a rise in the mercury, with conditions in the high 20s covering swathes of England next week. The maps and charts ...

Have you ever gone out for a ride on a motorcycle on a relatively warm day, clad only in a t-shirt and shorts? You might find that, even if it's a fairly mild day out, things suddenly take a turn for ...

The energy that supercharged Hurricane Milton into a Category 5 storm on Monday came from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which have been abnormally warm not just at the surface, but at depth, too.

If you were to compare Earth today with the planet 485 million years ago, when would it be warmer? A new research study charting temperatures over nearly half a million years reveals the surprising ...

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 new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...

A team of scientists at NASA have confirmed how Mars' 'spider' formations are carved by carbon dioxide. They were first ...

Elvin Murillo and fellow laborers wear protective gear against the hot sun as they take a break at a residential construction site on Key Biscayne, Florida, on May 17, 2024. Al Diaz ...

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS say they are running out of adjectives to describe recent weather anomalies. Last year was the hottest on record: the World Meteorological Organisation said that temperatures were ...

Molten air smothered South Florida last summer with an unprecedented streak of heat advisories and excessive heat warnings as high temperatures and humidity created treacherous outdoor extremes. With ...