Ancient ice cores are valuable to investigate due to the water and air stored in them, according to Space.com. In both of ...

Imagine a world where the polar ice sheets are melting, sea level is rising and the atmosphere is stuffed with about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Sound familiar? It should. We’re living it ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that the most revealing slice ...

Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of ...

Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from ...

In May 2013, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere hit a previously unthinkable milestone. For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's air reached ...

To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that the most revealing slice of time is the Pliocene ...

Elon Musk teased Joe Rogan with possible evidence of aliens during a discussion about the Manhattan-sized comet known as ...

Carcharocles megalodon could reach up to 60 feet in length and had jaws measuring 9 feet wide. It lived from 23 million years ago up until the end of the Pliocene Epoch, around 2.6 million years ago.

https://doi.org/10.2307/1485728 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1485728 Copy URL A new diatom species, Thalassiosira praeoestrupii Dumont, Baldauf and Barron, is ...

Scientists studied the Pliocene epoch, which happened a few million years ago. Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth. They found Antarctic ice ...