Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

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Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

Global warming may overshoot, driving extreme cooling and potentially triggering Earth’s next ice age, scientists warn.

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

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Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...

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Could a warming planet actually trigger a deep freeze? Discover how Earth’s tiny ocean organisms might flip the climate from ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

Scientists now believe intense global warming could paradoxically lead to a future ice age. Learn how an ocean feedback loop ...