For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

Earth’s climate is shifting faster than many models anticipated, and scientists now warn that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push key systems beyond their stable range. Instead of a smooth, ...

Abrupt climate shifts are well documented in Earth's history and are commonly associated with ice-sheet dynamics during past ice ages. However, how similar millennial-scale climate variability could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New satellite data reveal Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more solar energy than the South, threatening to disrupt global ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

For decades, global temperature averages have been the yardstick by which we measure our planet's fever. Leaders gather at ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...

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"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?" ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

A new study by UC Davis and Chinese researchers shows how extraterrestrial forces move Earth's climate into a glacial phase both over the last 34 million years and 300 million years. Recent rapid ...