Earth’s climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet’s ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

New research is drawing urgent attention to Milankovitch cycles — the slow but powerful orbital rhythms that have dictated ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

Associated Press — Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences solves a long-standing climate mystery: Why don't the records of oxygen isotopes (δ 18 O) in cave formations like ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - There have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods over the last 800,000 years, according to NASA. This is based on data from natural records of climate, an example ...

Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding. Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Université Grenoble Alpes have found that the Earth system flips between two ...