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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit. It may have been a frigid January for much of the U.S., but that didn't stop the planet from breaking another temperature record.

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 ...