4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (260+ words) New research explores whether building a massive dam across the Bering Strait could help stabilise the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key ocean current system threatened by climate change, and weighs the scientific uncertainties, geoengineering risks and ethical questions…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1177+ words) For more than a century, scientists have known that Earth wasn’t always the cooler, ice-capped planet we live on today. As recently as three million years ago, temperatures and sea levels were higher – evidence that appears in everything from temperate…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (857+ words) Raising the Foro Drill, Allan Hills, Antarctica. 2022-2023. Drilling tent at Allan Hills during the 2019-20 season. A windy day at Allan Hills, Antarctica. December 2022. New analyses by Oregon State University and Princeton University researchers of ancient ice from Antarctica and the…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (252+ words) Peter Clack writes on X:A common climate myth is that modern CO₂ is rising faster than anything in 800,000 years. The truth is, no one can ever know. And this is where the science rubber really hits the road. There’s no way…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (587+ words) 18 Mar 2026 by Gavin 2 Comments The mystery of why the last million or so years of glacial variability are so different to what came before just got more mysterious… It’s easy to understand why the ice ages have such a hold…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (833+ words) CORVALLIS, Ore. — New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth’s climate records and expanding researchers’ understanding of how the planet has changed over the last 3 million years. The findings,…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (510+ words) For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate The drilling site at Allan Hills in Antarctica where researchers extracted a 3-million-year-old ice coreAustin Carter Bubbles…...