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 ...

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.

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

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Level Opening Plenary on Ocean Day in Cali, Colombia, UNEP Chief Inger Andersen emphasized that the ocean, vital to life, is ...