In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

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

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber ...

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably would've needed a jacket. Geologists have long suspected that Earth's temperature dropped dramatically during this time, ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

New geochemical sleuthing has pushed Earth’s climate record into almost unimaginable territory, revealing seawater that once chilled to about minus 15° C without turning to ice. The finding comes from ...