Fatal Flaw in Carbon Cycle Could Plunge Earth into Global Freeze

A new study reveals that Earth’s climate “thermostat” may sometimes overreact, turning global warming into an unexpected deep ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Does Earth’s Carbon Cycle Work?

Ultimately, to understand how the Earth’s carbon cycle works is to appreciate the human influence currently impacting it. Getty Images, James Cawley This is the second in a five-part series written by ...
Salon

Earth’s salt cycle is swinging out of balance, posing yet another “existential threat,” study finds

It is not pleasant to imagine that human activity is making the planet uninhabitable, but we typically think of this in terms of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels or acidifying the oceans. We aren't ...
Futurism

The Earth Suffers a Regular Cycle of Horrific Catastrophes, Scientists Say

Every 27.5 million years or so, the Earth’s heart “beats.” That’s according to a new study published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers, by a team of geologists who found that our planet goes through ...
New Atlas

Rock-solid evidence shows how Earth's eccentric orbit affects climate change

You probably picture the Earth's annual journey around the Sun as being more or less a circle, but that's only true some of the time. Models have long suggested that our home planet's orbit shifts ...
Digital Journal

Op-Ed: 27.5 million year cycle of mass extinctions rewriting Earth’s geo history

The earth has asteroids whizzing past it several times a week. — Photo: © AFP The earth has asteroids whizzing past it several times a week. — Photo: © AFP The ...