Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ...

Ancient rocks in Sweden are acting like a “rock clock,” helping scientists finally pin down when major Cambrian climate ...

Our planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally different from the world we know today. The parallels are unsettling. The ...

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet’s deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. Knowledge of the natural world millions of years ago is ...