For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And ...

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...

To fully understand the impact of 2025 being Earth’s third-warmest year in modern history, NBC Connecticut reached out to ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Mars’s gravity shapes ice ages on Earth, new research finds - 'Without Mars, Earth’s orbit would be missing major climate ...

Abrupt climate shifts are well documented in Earth's history and are commonly associated with ice-sheet dynamics during past ice ages. However, how similar millennial-scale climate variability could ...