A remarkable image taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) offers a breathtaking view of three ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...

Science News. from research organizations. Elegantly modeling Earth's abrupt glacial transitions Simple and intuitive model illustrates how climate cycles are influenced by our planet's orbit ...

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

The footprints of long-gone glaciers and icebergs are now frozen in time in a stunning new collection of images of Earth’s seafloor. The Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms is a comprehensive ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland ...

Additionally, the tendency for glacial terminations to occur at ~100,000-year intervals – ... and the shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun – in glacial transitions. ... Science DOI 10.1126 ...

Melting glaciers have changed the Earth’s axis. NurPhoto via Getty Images. The project, which was funded by the Chinese government, included data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment ...

Their findings, published in Science, offer new insights into Earth’s dynamic climate system and represent a step-change in understanding the planet’s glacial cycles. The team examined a million-year ...

The last major glacial thaw was 10,000 years ago, which means that the Earth is scheduled to head into another ice age. Whether human influences could reverse this, Huybers was hesitant to speculate.

WASHINGTON, March 7, 2023 – Proxy data – indirect records of the Earth’s climate found in unlikely places like coral, pollen, trees, and sediments – show interesting oscillations ...