Learn how the carbon cycle works and how greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane disrupt it, shaping climate change ...

At the end of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, a hypersaline brine known as “Blood Falls” flows onto the surface. The red color is from iron oxide. Mineral deposits formed in the past from such fluids ...

Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, Earth has lived through a series of climatic shifts, shaping the planet as we know it today. Past changes in CO 2 levels and temperature can help us ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mars may be around 140 million miles away from Earth, but the red planet is influencing our deep oceans by helping drive “giant whirlpools,” according to new research. Scientists analyzed sediments, ...

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a “warm ice age” permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. Contemporaneous with this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A ...

Christmas Day will be quite warm across the U.S. only days after the winter solstice. Here is an explanation of why winter ...

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 ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...