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

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

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

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 ...

Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...

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

The Earth is known for its constant evolution, but it was recently discovered by researchers that there is a trigger that leads to the planet's biodiversity seeing a massive boost, and it is through a ...

Researches used rhenium as a proxy for fossil carbon in order to quantify the rate at which Earth naturally releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and found that high rates of carbon breakdown ...

Mars, despite being tens of millions of miles away, may play a larger role in Earth’s long-term climate cycles than previously thought, according to research published Sunday. The study, which ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...