The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme ...

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

UC Riverside researchers reveal how the planet is on track to cool to extreme temperatures within 100,000 years due to a ...

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

The extent of this cooling effect depends heavily on atmospheric oxygen levels. In Earth's distant past, when oxygen was ...

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 ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released on Thursday that the global water cycle was ...

With oceans showing dangerous levels of acidity, seven of nine crucial planetary boundaries – the limits beyond which Earth ...

In a comment published in Nature Climate Change, Mark Bradford, the E.H. Harriman Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology, ...

Solar Maximum 2025 is the expected peak of solar activity in Solar Cycle 25, characterized by heightened sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. This peak is anticipated around mid to late ...