A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to ...

This results in different climate zones in different parts of the Earth having different climate conditions. Tropical desert regions of the world Tropical deserts are hot and dry with summer and ...

Sedimentary rocks deposited in deepwater, below the photic (light-penetrated) zone, contain muddy ... these times do reveal Earth’s full spectrum of known climate possibilities.

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

Welcome to The World feature where you can navigate around Earth via continents and climate zones. It also highlights the place where Jared Diamond started his quest, Papua New Guinea. See what ...

A key reason that we have different climate zones is that the Earth is tilted on its axis as it orbits the Sun. Incoming energy from the Sun is more concentrated at the Equator than it is towards ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just ... from our sun. The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. Winters would be long and ...