Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

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Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

Earth's slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by researchers from China, Belgium, and Austria shows that these orbital motions can ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

"Atmospheric greenhouse gases have steadily increased over the last 10 years." ...

To fully understand the impact of 2025 being Earth’s third-warmest year in modern history, NBC Connecticut reached out to ...

Researchers discovered Mars subtly affects Earth’s orbit and axial tilt. These small changes help trigger ice ages and ...

For Shannon “SJ” Joslin, who is nonbinary and gay, nature provides comfort when humans simply can’t — or won’t. The former ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The Earth channels cosmic power in the form of solar energy. The coming winter superstorm shows just what havoc that power ...