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 ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is causing significant regional changes in climate compared to areas with forest cover above 80%.

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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The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the global average since the late 1970s. 20°C above the ...

The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

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 ...