In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

The Himalaya is facing a snow drought where winter snowfall arrives months late and summer heat comes early. Is the snowless ...

"Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition." The post Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say ...

Uncertainty in climate models could mean Earth systems are perilously close to their tipping points, scientists warn.

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

A new study uncovers aquatic deoxygenation as Earth's 10th tipping point, threatening ecosystems and humanity's future. Can we still save the planet?

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

Ice cores show Earth’s climate stayed in a stable range for thousands of years, until human emissions triggered a sudden spike in global temperatures. In this interview with climate scientist Dr.

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and ...