The stabilization of Earth’s climate could be negated by faster processes related to organic carbon, turning warming events ...

New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the ...

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

Deep within Greenland’s ice sheet, a chemical anomaly has sparked intense scientific debate, especially after researchers ...

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

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

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of years, building up ...

Apple TV today released a first-look clip from the new season of the award-winning natural history series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age.

What can craters on Mars teach scientists about the Red Planet’s climate history? This is what a recent study published in ...

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 ...