A new study reveals that Earth’s climate “thermostat” may sometimes overreact, turning global warming into an unexpected deep ...

A new study has revealed that the Southern Ocean releases far more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during the winter than ...

Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural cycles ...

Earth is closer to the sun at some times of year than at others, with the time of closest approach shifting over a period of 22,000 years. This affects Earth's climate, including ice ages, but a team ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Houstonians showed up in droves to help make an environmental impact at the 16th annual ABC13 Earth Day E-Cycle Drive. A steady line of vehicles flowed through CompuCycle's Spring ...

The hydrological cycle is a fundamental natural process for keeping Earth’s operating system intact. Humanity and civilization are intimately dependent on the water cycle, but we have manipulated it ...

HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE TECHNOLOGY WE USE ON EARTH. >> JUST LIKE WE HAVE HURRICANE CYCLES THAT LAST ROUGHLY A YEAR, THE SUN HAS A CYCLE THAT LASTS 11 YEARS. JENNIFER: ALEX YOUNG IS A TUNED AT GODDARD ...

A research has uncovered solid clues about the very beginning of the supercontinent cycle of Earth, finding it was kick-started two billion years ago. Curtin University research has uncovered the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. A new statistical analysis of 260 million years of geological ...