To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

For most of its history, Earth has existed in a greenhouse state—warm, ice-free, and rich in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And while we can’t know the future for sure, we can get a lot of good clues from ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

As Earth’s climate continues to shift, scientists are looking to the deep past to understand how the atmosphere has changed over time. By measuring the isotope fingerprints in these microscopic space ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...

We've all had the thought — wouldn't it be nice if summer were just a little longer? Well, it might become a reality in the ...

Past and future trends in global mean temperature spanning the last 66 million years, showing four distinctive climate states. See larger image (Credit: Westerhold et al., CENOGRID) James Zachos For ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...