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Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...
New simulations show red planet affects Milankovitch cycles that shape how solar energy is distributed on Earth over millions ...
Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is ...
At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the ...
Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...
Scientists have long debated what causes glacial/interglacial cycles, which have occurred most recently at intervals of about 100,000 years. A new study reported in the March 24 issue of Nature finds ...
Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.
BOULDER–Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun’s impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar ...
In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, a scientific team presents a good correlation between temporal ...