A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

The planet has always changed. Ice ages came and went, oceans rose and fell, climates shifted over geological timescales. That's the story we've told ourselves for comfort, and it's technically true.

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Small but mighty, the red planet — our celestial neighbor — has made Earth’s climate what it is today. Mars’ gravitational pull serves as a stabilizing force for our home’s orbit, tilt and position ...