Scientists studying ancient glacier cores have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing evidence of a previously unknown ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

Scientists studied an 8-million-year sediment core from the South-East Pacific near Antarctica, revealing changes in the ACC ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core from the Southeast Pacific ...

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 ...

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they could also ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

The expectation that competition for dwindling resources drives societies toward conflict has shaped much of the discourse ...

The National Museum of Natural History is among the first eight Smithsonian sites the Trump administration announced it will ...

It will take major changes at a global scale to mitigate climate change. The amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into Earth's atmosphere has reached such a high level that it will take major ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...