New research shows that today’s global warming could eventually overshoot into runaway cooling, setting the stage for a ...

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

A new study gives scientists a fresh look at what life was like in the Las Vegas valley more than 12,000 years ago. Before the strip, Southern Nevada was home to ice-age animals. The new discovery is ...

The only thing scarier than a Xenomorph is this: One hundred years in the future, we're still watching Ice Age: Continental Drift. Without context, the reference might not make a lick of sense.

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

New research shows warming events can, under certain conditions, trigger long-term cooling strong enough to resemble past ice ages.

Earth has been in a constant temperature battle long before humanity was even an idea. Our green planet has warmed and cooled ...

Grebey is a contributor for TIME. Alex Lawther as Hermit, Sydney Chandler as Wendy in Alien: Earth Grebey is a contributor for TIME. Viewers of the new series Alien: Earth were probably expecting to ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up history. “It was a shot in the dark when we decided to core this lake ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and ice, warmth ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...