In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

In May 2013, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere hit a previously unthinkable milestone. For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's air reached ...

Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of ...

This animation depicts climatic conditions out to 2280 assuming emissions of greenhouse gases are not restrained. The color coding shows how future conditions would compare to past climates, with ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that the most revealing slice ...

Carcharocles megalodon could reach up to 60 feet in length and had jaws measuring 9 feet wide. It lived from 23 million years ago up until the end of the Pliocene Epoch, around 2.6 million years ago.

https://doi.org/10.2307/1485728 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1485728 Copy URL A new diatom species, Thalassiosira praeoestrupii Dumont, Baldauf and Barron, is ...

Sparse trees cast long shadows as the morning sun rises over the grassy woodland clearing. Elephants and rhinos gather around a quiet watering hole. A troop of baboons starts chattering as they wake ...

Scientists studied the Pliocene epoch, which happened a few million years ago. Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth. They found Antarctic ice ...

In recent years, the global climate has become increasingly extreme, with intensifying alternations of droughts and ...

The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) stands as the most northerly extending monsoon system, defined by its remarkable seasonal march. It features a stepwise northward migration of rainfall stages, ...

Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of ...