New climate maps show wild wheat and barley grew in much smaller areas than thought, narrowing early farming origins.

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

A new study of bald cypress trees reveals how ancient climate shifts, starting around 500 A.D., drastically shortened tree ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally different from the world we know today. The parallels are unsettling. The ...

Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth’s past, according to an expert on ...

Small iron-rich formations found within Western Australia's Pinnacles, which are part of the world's largest wind-blown limestone belt spanning more than 1000km, have provided new insights into ...

A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last ice age. The researchers point toward ...

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 ...

Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for hundreds of thousands of years, hold secrets about our planet's past.