New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the gradual breakdown of silicate rocks played the leading role in regulating Earth’s ...
Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...
What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in 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 ...
When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...
The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.
Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...