To spread awareness that “climate change isn’t just an environmental issue; it’s a human story woven into the fabric of our civilization’s rise and fall,” Georgetown University historian Professor ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

In an exciting development for climate science, researchers have extracted an Arctic ice core containing an astonishing 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. The discovery, reported by the ...

The Earth’s climate system is now “out of balance,” according to a new global report — with scientists warning that a key measure of warming has reached its highest level on record. The latest “State ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Scientists have warned that climate change is now slowing Earth's rotation at a rate unlike anything seen in the past 3.6 million years.

Ancient societies adapted to deadly climate swings instead of collapsing, challenging long-held assumptions about drought and ...

Millions of people around the world will pause Wednesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data into Earth's climate history.