Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

A pull in the right direction ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

"Atmospheric greenhouse gases have steadily increased over the last 10 years." ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

Methane-eating microbes grow naturally in oxygen-deficient circumstances, which implies that they are already present in ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

Earth's radiation budget is a core process of the Earth-atmosphere system, closely linked to global climate and environmental ...

For Shannon “SJ” Joslin, who is nonbinary and gay, nature provides comfort when humans simply can’t — or won’t. The former ...

Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study, ...