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

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A research team ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on our ...

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 ...

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

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 Earth’s climate for millions of years. Scientists say these astronomical ...

A July 18 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, features an illustration of the sun. "THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly ...

Professor Isabel Montañez, a chancellor’s leadership professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined UC Davis in 1998.(Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Our planet’s history is one of ...

Climate change has caused many ecological and environmental changes including more extreme weather, record-high temperatures and more risk of disease. However, climate change may have also altered the ...