New! Sign up for our free email newsletter.

Early Climate News

December 7, 2024

Top Headlines

 

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire ...
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the slushy planet -- otherwise known as the ...
A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from deep within the Earth long past their period of ...
The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns, a new study indicates. Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows of freshwater from melting Arctic sea-ice into the Nordic Seas likely ...

Latest Headlines

updated 6:56pm EST

Earlier Headlines

 

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased ...

The sea surface temperature in the Fijian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific is now at its maximum for more than 600 years. This finding is the result of an international research team's ...

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

Researchers have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented ...

A study is calling into question the reliability of the earthquake record of Cascadia. The researchers analyzed a selection of turbidite layers from the Cascadia subduction zone dating back about ...

By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, study led by geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 ...

The study found that the Port Askaig Formation, composed of layers of rock up to 1.1 km thick, was likely laid down between 662 to 720 million years ago during the Sturtian glaciation -- the first of ...

Researchers highlight the roles of carbon dioxide and ocean currents as key drivers of temperature fluctuations in the tropical Andes over a 16,000 year ...

Catastrophic volcanic eruptions that warmed the planet millions of years ago shed new light on how plants evolve and regulate climate. Researchers reveal the long-term effects of disturbed natural ...

Scientists have recovered the first long section of rocks that originated in the Earth's mantle, the layer below the crust and the planet's largest component. The rocks will help unravel ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world's oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts ...

The first continent-wide mapping study of plant life across Antarctica reveals growth in previously uncharted areas and is set to inform conservation measures across the region. The satellite survey ...

Seeds, twigs, and insect parts found under two miles of ice confirm Greenland's ice sheet melted in the recent past, the first direct evidence that the center -- not just the edges -- of the ...

The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise, a new study ...

Clues to future sea level rise have been revealed by the first detailed maps of the underside of a floating ice shelf in Antarctica. An international research team deployed an unmanned submersible ...

A new study finds disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier ...

New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American ...

A recent study provides new insights into ancient cultures in Canada's Arctic, focusing on Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples over thousands of years. Researchers detected human presence and ...

In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets. The 'eternal' ice in Antarctica is melting faster than previously assumed, particularly in West Antarctica more ...

Global warming as well as recent droughts and floods threaten large populations along the Nile Valley. Sediment cores off the Nile mouth reveal insights into the effects and causes of heavy rainfall ...

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Monday, August 26, 2024

Friday, August 16, 2024

Monday, August 12, 2024

Friday, August 9, 2024

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Monday, August 5, 2024

Friday, August 2, 2024

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Monday, July 1, 2024

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Monday, June 24, 2024

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Monday, June 10, 2024

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Monday, June 3, 2024

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Monday, May 20, 2024

Friday, May 17, 2024

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Monday, May 13, 2024

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Monday, March 18, 2024

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Monday, February 12, 2024

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Monday, January 15, 2024

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Monday, December 4, 2023

Friday, December 1, 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Monday, November 27, 2023

Friday, November 17, 2023

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Friday, November 3, 2023

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Friday, October 27, 2023

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Monday, October 16, 2023