As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet’s deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. Knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is ...

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 ...

Ancient fossils show how much warming tropical oceans can handle before plankton collapse, offering clues about future ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Geoscience has found that during Earth’s most extreme ancient warming periods, between 66 and 47.8 million years ago, rainfall across mid-latitude regions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A new study finds that plants around the world moved poleward during a dynamic period of rising temperatures 56 million years ago Jack Tamisiea 56 million years ago, massive amounts of carbon entered ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ...

Some researchers are seeking out the ancient history of these patterns in a substance that may be unexpected to some: plant wax. The study, coauthored by Daniel Ibarra, an assistant professor of Earth ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

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 ...