Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

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Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

Global warming may overshoot, driving extreme cooling and potentially triggering Earth’s next ice age, scientists warn.

Something in the Atlantic is shifting, though it is not easy to see from the surface. There are no dramatic waves or sudden ...

Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...

A new study challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth's ice ages. The research provides fresh insights into the ocean's role in climate during the ...

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Could a warming planet actually trigger a deep freeze? Discover how Earth’s tiny ocean organisms might flip the climate from ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

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