We call a day 24 hours because it’s a clean, reliable number. But Earth isn’t a perfect clock. When our planet formed 4.6 billion years ago, a day lasted a mere six hours. By the time the dinosaurs ...

The world is moving in a perilous direction when it comes to planet-warming methane emissions, which are soaring to record highs driven largely by human activity, new research warns. In April of this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavy equipment working near dry brush sparked a destructive wildfire near Riverside, Calif., in September 2024. AP Photo/Eric ...

A recent study led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds new light on how human activities have altered the composition of the atmosphere over time, ...

A new study shows extreme heat is increasing worldwide, limiting safe daily activities and raising health risks for millions of people.

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human ...

Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Research shows wildfires are up to four times larger and three times more frequent than they were in ...