In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...
A sweeping new study reveals that humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. By analyzing centuries of data, researchers mapped how ...
New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...
Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...
For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.
For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.
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 ...