The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Climate change could push the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC the brink of collapse within decades, ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. As a result, they believe that global warming can overcorrect into an ...

A new study reveals that Earth’s climate “thermostat” may sometimes overreact, turning global warming into an unexpected deep ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...

Warm deep water driven by ancient meltwater feedbacks caused rapid ice-shelf collapse in East Antarctica 9,000 years ago. The ...

The unprecedented rates of warming and melting of vast ice masses in Greenland have also led to movements in the bedrock from ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Scientists recovered 39,000-year-old RNA from a frozen mammoth, revealing gene activity, physiology and stress, opening new ...