The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Climate change could push the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC the brink of collapse within decades, ...

The AMOC is vital for residents of northwestern Europe and the northeastern US who rely on the warmer water to keep winters ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

Iceland declares Atlantic Ocean current collapse a national security threat as scientists warn it could trigger a modern-day ...

Prof. Maureen Raymo, earth sciences, Boston University discussed the origins of ice ages on Earth in a packed classroom in Snee Hall yesterday afternoon. Raymo explained that by measuring the amount ...

Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around two million years ago, Earth underwent a series of temperature fluctuations ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...