According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the ocean traditionally functions as a "carbon sink" that ...

A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

As the planet continues to warm and the ramifications of human-driven climate change continue to amplify, the need to find ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

Results from a new study provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the "slushy" planet – otherwise known as the ...

Many theories have been proposed for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, and an important one is linked to a significant weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). However, the ...

In the depths of the ocean, a creature called the Monorhaphis chuni sponge is challenging our understanding of longevity.