A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth's most extreme ice ages. Using numerical ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about ...

Earth experienced several periods in its history when ice covered nearly the entire planet, known as snowball Earth events. A study at the Earth-Life Science Institute at Institute of Science Tokyo ...

Looking at the timeless circle of Stonehenge, one can't help but wonder how Neolithic people managed to build such an engineering marvel over 5,000 ye.

A new modeling study suggests that salt left behind on sea ice could have made the planet even brighter and colder as global glaciation began.

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between the atmosphere and oceans would be prevented, muting climate variability – ...

Over 2.4 billion years ago, Earth entered one of the most extreme climate events in its history — the Huronian Glaciation. For up to 300 million years, vast ice sheets covered the planet in what may ...

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

Ciaran Doolin works as a meteorologist at MetService – Te Ratonga Tirorangi. Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time. My ...