The precipitation of salt out of sea ice created a feedback mechanism that might explain the formation of Snowball Earth, the most extreme climatic event in the history of our planet. The idea, ...
Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.
He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a published ...
When we look at the solid ground beneath our feet, it's easy to assume Earth has always been this way. But our planet tells a story so extraordinary, so ...
Paul Wilcox descends into Devil’s Canopy Cave on Prince of Wales Island. An unlikely discovery in a cave on Prince of Wales Island could help scientists understand Earth’s climate history. A small ...
At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...
As Europe solidifies its climate policies, the Past to Future (P2F) project seeks to validate climate models against a ...
A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth's most extreme ice ages. Using numerical ...
After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...
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