Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video examines a moment in Earth’s history when environmental change occurred far faster than expected. Geological and fossil records are compared to show how temperature, carbon levels, and life ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Past and future trends in global mean temperature spanning the last 67 million years. Oxygen isotope values in deep-sea benthic foraminifera from sediment cores are a measure of global temperature and ...