A seemingly small planetary neighbor may play a larger role in Earth’s climate than previously thought. Mars is only about ...

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Throughout Earth’s long and dynamic history, the climate has shifted dramatically. Ice ages have come and gone, shaping the planet and leaving scientists and historians alike wondering about their ...

Earth’s climate is influenced by far more than weather patterns and greenhouse gases. Scientists have discovered that long-term orbital shifts known as Milankovitch cycles slowly change the planet’s ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, ...

New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most ...

Stephen Kane, a professor of planetary astrophysics at UC Riverside, was skeptical when he read recent studies that showed the gravitational pull from Mars being connected to Earth’s long-term climate ...

How does Mars influence Earth’s climate cycles? This is what a recent study published in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific hopes to address as a trio of researchers from the ...

How does climate change influence the planet’s nitrogen cycle? This is what a recent study published in Nitrogen Cycling hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated climate change’s impact ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...