Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. Chart goes viral showing how ...

Bloomberg columnist Mark Gongloff says this scary-looking chart is something "climate denialists can't ignore" because it shows how much hotter the world has been getting since 1930. The chart should ...

Back in March, I wrote about the climate change chart that was slowly driving me insane, the decades-long record of global average sea surface temperatures (minus the poles) where 2023 and 2024 had ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...