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 ...

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.

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

Some consider the resulting meat — known as Hákarl by Greenlanders — a delicacy. “Apparently it tastes like a very ripe ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

DR DIVA AMON:So while we may think that the deep ocean is this alien, remote place' it is absolutely fundamental to us being here on planet Earth. And yet we've only explored about 1% of it.

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.