Measuring just 2.6 square kilometers, the Carcross Desert in Yukon, Canada, is widely celebrated as the world's smallest ...

Although the Trump administration has taken steps to scuttle or downplay other reports about climate change, this one struck ...

A yearly checkup on the region documents a warmer, rainier Arctic and 200 Alaskan rivers “rusting” as melting tundra leaches ...

Earth’s climate is not only shaped by smokestacks, forests, and oceans. It is also quietly tuned by the slow choreography of ...

The Arctic has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, a new report shows, as temperatures skyrocket and ice rapidly melts ...

Russian researchers have coaxed microscopic animals back to life after they spent roughly 24,000 years locked in Siberian ice ...

From an ancient Egyptian hoax to a mysterious disappearances and Cold War history, here are 10 bizarre facts you probably ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

Today, Long Valley behaves with unnerving politeness—occasional uplift, periodic earthquakes, the subtle exhalation of ...

Between September and November, Death Valley received 2.4 inches of rain, with 1.8 inches in November alone — breaking a ...

Stéphane Picard, owner of astrotourism company Cliff Valley Astronomy, lives in a suburb called Quispamsis, in a place called ...

In an age of rising sea levels, as polar ice sheets melt in a climate warmed by fossil fuel emissions, climate modelers are racing to understand what the future might hold for coastlines around the ...