The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ...

For millions of years, Earth's climate has been governed not just by carbon or oceans - but by the shape of its orbit. Known as Milankovitch Cycles, these long-term astronomical patterns influence ice ...

Discover the natural causes of climate change with Milankovitch Cycles, impacting Earth's orbit, axis, and solar energy distribution.

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. reading ...

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 UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released on Thursday that the global water cycle was becoming ever more unpredictable, with shrinking glaciers, droughts, unbalanced ...

With CO 2 emissions continuing unabated, an increasing number of policymakers, scientists and environmentalists are considering geoengineering to avert a climate catastrophe. Such interventions could ...