Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away ...

Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...

Earth may feel stable beneath our feet, but our planet is actually racing through space at extraordinary speeds. In this ...

A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

Earth is closer to the sun at some times of year than at others, with the time of closest approach shifting over a period of 22,000 years. This affects Earth's climate, including ice ages, but a team ...

BOULDER–Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Rising global temperatures have shifted at least twice the amount of ...