Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Discover the natural causes of climate change with Milankovitch Cycles, impacting Earth's orbit, axis, and solar energy ...

What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in the ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

The World Meteorological Organization says CO2 growth rates have tripled since the 1960s, reaching levels not seen in 800,000 ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's ...

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released on Thursday that the global water cycle was becoming ever more unpredictable, with shrinking glaciers, droughts, unbalanced ...