Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Research tracks deep carbon cycle over 540 million years, links icehouse and greenhouse phases to movement of tectonic plates ...

MELBOURNE, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanic eruptions, may have triggered major climate transitions between ancient ice ages and warm periods, ...

A major winter storm was forecast to spread heavy snow, sleet and dangerous ice to tens of millions of Americans across two ...

Scientists have traditionally focused on volcanic arcs as the main natural source of atmospheric carbon dioxide. These form ...

Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...

This week's reviews divide between present work and recovered history. Two of the records come from Arkansas-based artists ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...

Natural disasters affect many parts of the world, but few countries experience them as frequently and as intensely as ...