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Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

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The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and ...

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

The Council today approved conclusions on "Europe's Environment 2030 – Building a more climate resilient and circular Europe". The conclusions stress the urgent need to accelerate action to meet the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website — tweaking some pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change and wiping ...

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Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized that the climate changes over time ...