Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Earth’s climate has alternated between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, primarily due to subtle changes in ...

Coral reefs are Earth’s most diverse marine ecosystems and a beloved tourist destination. Now, new research reveals that they ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

The Earth's climate has been changing for millions of years under the influence of the gravity of neighboring planets. A new ...

On its own, Earth would shift toward another ice age in about 10,000 years, scientists say. But humanity's greenhouse gas emissions may have radically shifted the climate's trajectory. Credit: Matt ...

Coral reefs didn’t merely mirror global change, but helped regulate how fast the climate bounced back from massive surges of ...

Discover how the rise and fall of shallow-water coral reefs has influenced the Earth's recovery from major carbon dioxide ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney and Université Grenoble Alpes have found that the Earth system flips between two ...