Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

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The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Foraminifera are among the most widely used biological archives in paleoceanographic and environmental studies. Their calcareous tests preserve a wealth of ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

Oceans made warmer by human-caused climate change are fueling more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic. In our warming climate, these storms also bring heavier rainfall and higher storm surge when ...

Several studies have attempted to model the effects of climate change on the economy, with varying results. But one fact remains certain: The costs of climate change will hit emerging markets and ...

What he discovered was eye-opening. Rather than supporting climate skepticism, the paper explicitly states, "CO2 is the dominant driver of Phanerozoic climate [the past 485 million years], emphasizing ...

Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many smaller ways it disturbs our daily life ...

The climate curve revealed that Earth’s current global temperature is cooler than during much of the Phanerozoic.