Researchers found Earth's orbital changes align with past volcanic eruptions. Climate shifts and massive eruptions occurred ...

to those long-deferred stirrings of the deep imprisoned titans which have divided earth history into periods and eras. The flight of time is measured by the weaving of composite rhythms— day and ...

During this period, the parts of the Earth classified as drylands expanded by about 1.66 million square miles, an area bigger ...

This event is commonly called the "African Humid Period (AHP)". The AHP was a direct result of African monsoonal climate responses to periodic variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun that ...

This continued throughout the Cretaceous and by the end of the period the continents had moved almost into the positions they are in today. Back then Earth was a lot warmer than it is today and there ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...