Earth was already warm. 'As a result, there was a lot of vegetation, even at high latitudes. That means that a lot of carbon ...

The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO2 entered the ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

“This finding aligns with both modern soil science and the medieval ‘miasma theory,’ which held that diseases spread through ...

From orbit, much of Greenland appears seamless. A white expanse, unbroken, stretching across the map like a frozen shield.

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the ...

A record of repeated retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the past warm climates has been identified by IODP Exp379 ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...

The first study from GreenDrill—a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath ...