Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

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

New geochemical sleuthing has pushed Earth’s climate record into almost unimaginable territory, revealing seawater that once ...

Explore the concept of 'snowball earth' and recent findings on climate variability during this ancient icy period.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked ...

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.

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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 ...

Beccy holds a PhD in Biological Science, a Master’s in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and Forensic Science.View full profile Beccy holds a PhD in ...

New research reveals that the Snowball Earth was not always frozen solid. There were periods where it moved to slushball or ...