Climate

Some Neanderthals resorted to desperate (and gruesome) measures to survive.

New research finds that new Arctic sea ice now usually melts near the coast instead of traveling through the open Arctic Ocean.

As the Arctic warms, sea ice born near Russia is failing to reach the open ocean.

Instead of shrinking, this giant glacier is growing, NASA scientists found.

The decline of an empire was recorded in mounds of trash.

Earth's icy periods may owe their existence to tropical mountains.

The Arctic autumn is getting cloudier. That's bad news.

Carbon dioxide emissions could wipe out one of Earth's most common types of clouds. That's bad news.

When will the end come for the oceans?

Don't eat the black snow.

As climate change destroys their hunting grounds, some bears eat garbage to survive.

And the past five years are, collectively, have been the warmest years in the modern record, hands down.

Extreme heat due to climate change might increase congenital heart defects.

There's a giant void hiding under the Antarctic ice, and it's growing larger and more menacing by the day, a new study using satellite data finds.

The middle of the country is basically a big cold-air funnel.

A meteorologist explains the science behind the historic weather event hitting the Midwest and Plains right now.

Sinkholes and fissures are opening up the earth around Tehran, Iran's capital city.