Milankovitch Cycles describe how variations in Earth’s orbit and tilt influence long-term climate shifts, including the ...

Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...