Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.
In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...
A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, ...
Each year, the world's leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their ...
Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...
New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...
The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...
As the summer of 2024 is on track to become the hottest on record, scientists are digging deep into the Earth's coldest corners to recover an icy record of what the atmosphere was like hundreds of ...
Earth's climate has varied widely over its history so why do a few degrees concern us now? If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our ...
Global climate spending is booming, yet only a small share helps communities adapt to intensifying climate impacts.