Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age witnessed by complex life: the Late Paleozoic ice age. At its peak, huge ...

A collaborative study with the University of Cologne, recently published in Nature Communications, provides compelling ...

Seagrass fossils show ancient meadows moved toward the poles during warm periods, offering clues for today’s warming oceans.

Scientists said the current rate of day lengthening is around 1.33 milliseconds per century.

On ten thousand to million years time scales, climate dynamics on the Earth’s surface are driven by both external and internal processes. Earth`s interior provides heat from radioactive decay and ...

Scientists have warned that climate change is now slowing Earth's rotation at a rate unlike anything seen in the past 3.6 million years.

This report provides an assessment of both the demonstrated and underdeveloped potential of the deep-time geologic record to inform us about the dynamics of the global climate system. The report ...

The effect is tiny, measured in milliseconds, but researchers say the trend is now occurring at a rate not seen in the past 3 ...