An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

The size variations in the Antarctic ice sheet over time have confirmed its unstable nature, made worse by greenhouse ...

Back in 1824, a French physicist named Joseph Fourier made a breakthrough that would fundamentally change our understanding of how Earth's atmosphere works. He discovered the greenhouse effect, which ...

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The geochemical data could be synchronized with a heretofore unattributed sulfate peak in Greenland ice cores. The statistical ... eruption and the abrupt change in climate," explains the ...

During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.