A new study, in which the Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute (IACT) (CSIC-UGR) participated, has described for the first time a key stage in the beginning of the great glaciations and indicates that it can happen to our planet in the future. 

Texas and other central states set records for cold temperatures during a persistent blast of arctic air.

For much of its history, our planet has been hotter—sometimes much hotter—than it is today. But our planet has also been colder.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts say the full extent of the damage won't be realized for weeks.

Texas A&M AgriLife offers information to help cope with losses and move forward once freezing temperatures subside.

The results of the new study contrast with ground level findings from recent studies in congested cities.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, researchers at ETH Zurich discovered the first indications that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface had been steadily declining since the 1950s. 

Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor. 

You can hear them coming long before you can see them. It is like a low, rhythmic singing. Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer describes it in his book Being Caribou as thrumming.

More than a third of farmland in the U.S. Corn Belt — nearly 100 million acres — has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil due to erosion, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.