Milankovitch cycles describe slow, predictable changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt that influence long-term climate patterns.

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Fornace Zarattini in northern Italy, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake ...

Floods and droughts across the globe are moving in sync, and a powerful Pacific climate cycle is pulling the strings.

During the Cold War, Greenland’s importance grew as the Soviet threat intensified. Today, the U.S. operates the Pituffik ...

In the context of contemporary global ecological and environmental challenges, maintaining ecosystem services and sustainable ...

New simulations show Mars plays a key role in shaping Earth’s long-term climate by influencing its orbit and axial tilt over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on climate models. These models, in turn, are based on data from past geological ...

Such repositories raise complex ethical questions around public safety, particularly given the millennia-long timescales of ...

Have you ever wondered why Earth goes through massive climate swings, from freezing ice ages to warmer periods like today?