A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have ...

A light microscope image of a planktonic foraminifera collected from the water in the Southwest Indian Ocean. (Photo by Tracy Aze, University of Leeds via Courthouse News) (CN) — Carbon is one of the ...

However, sci-fi has the advantage of playing with time, taking known natural — or human-caused — climate interactions and ...

Computer simulation of Earth's climate evolving over one million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these ...

Some of the key samples in the study came from the La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California, where researchers analyzed ancient juniper wood preserved in tar. The team found clear signs of elevated ...

If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the moon in ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets... What space dust reveals about Earth's ice age Around ...

Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher. During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice a ...

Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ice age arrives on time instead of being delayed, researchers say. When ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. As a result, they believe that global warming can overcorrect into an ...