Ancient records help test climate change
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A librarian at this 10th century monastery leads a visitor beneath the vaulted ceilings of the archive past the skulls of two former abbots.
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Over the last 5,000 years, the eastern Caribbean has experienced several periods in which strong hurricanes occurred frequently despite cooler ocean temperatures.
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Nearly 4 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland could hold the earliest evidence of life on Earth, University of Chicago and Field Museum scientists say.
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A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics.
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Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary rocks.
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The Sun is in the thick of one of the longest and stormiest periods in 8000 years, say researchers who have tracked down an 11,400-year record of stormy sunspot activity in tree rings.
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Rivers of ice at the Equator &#151; foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th &#151; are now melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs.
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The Earth's rapid warming has pushed temperatures to their hottest level in nearly 12,000 years and within a hairbreadth of a million years, a study by the US space agency showed.
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Signs of ancient eruptions indicate a planet geologically active and may suggest presence of simple life forms. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread
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Many climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change.
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In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
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A team of scientists says it was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.
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Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction Â and shed light on climate change, scientists said Friday.
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Compelling evidence from a remote glacier suggests "drastic climate change," according to scientists.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  An amazing new tool for dating ancient remains, a luminescence geochronology laboratory, has been installed at Utah State University.
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The recent onslaught of hurricanes has prompted some media outlets to mention &quot;global warming&quot; as a possible cause, but a team of climate researchers set the record straight.