Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Researchers studying ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice have found new clues about how a changing climate can cause a ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

Something in the Atlantic is shifting, though it is not easy to see from the surface. There are no dramatic waves or sudden ...

Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...

A large-scale study of fossil human teeth from Ice Age Europe shows that climate change significantly influenced the demography of prehistoric humans. Using the largest dataset of human fossils from ...

After 700 years, the Trasllambrión glacier in Spain has completely disappeared, marking the end of an ice age in the Picos de ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – A changing climate triggers a sudden shift in ocean circulation, creating weather havoc and plunging Earth into an abrupt new Ice Age. It sounds like the basis for a Hollywood ...

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