Research helps reconstruct an ancient climate and challenges the timing of the Andes Mountains uplift. As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Gothenburg study finds thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon after the last Ice Age, potentially ...

Thousand-year-old seeds, and traces hidden in the soil for more than 5,000 years, have a lot to tell us. They provide clues to how people and the crops they grew for food were affected by climate ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time. My new research sheds light on the heated debate among New Zealand scientists ...

Worsening wildfires, soaring heat waves and rising water levels have prompted Greek officials to take a closer look at protecting priceless archaeological sites that draw hundreds of thousands of ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers drilling on the Guliya Glacier. Lonnie Thompson, CC BY-ND As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, ...

Rivers release nearly 2 billion tons of CO₂ annually, and a new global study shows that nearly 60% is from ancient carbon. Ancient carbon, hundreds to thousands of years old, enters rivers through ...

For decades, scientists have looked to the oceans for answers about one of Earth's biggest climate mysteries: Why did atmospheric carbon dioxide rise so dramatically as the planet emerged from the ...