New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

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

For millions of years, the Earth has oscillated between ice ages and warmer episodes. The movements of the ground beneath our ...

It is well documented that the Gulf Stream plays a pivotal role in the climate system through its transfer of heat, which ultimately supplies warmth to northern latitudes in the North Atlantic. What ...

Tiny marine plankton that build calcium carbonate shells play an outsized role in regulating Earth’s climate, quietly pulling carbon from the atmosphere and helping lock it away in the deep ocean. New ...

Warming is occurring across most U.S. states, though the pace and type of temperature changes vary widely from region to ...

The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate ...

Scientists have long believed that around 700 million years ago, Earth experienced extreme cold conditions known as "Snowball Earth", when ice stretched from the poles to the equator.

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.

What happens beneath the oceans and to our life-sustaining atmosphere ultimately affects all of us, directly or indirectly.