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Scientists Unlock 3 Million Years of Climate Secrets Hidden in Antarctic Ice

Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a more detailed and unexpected picture of Earth’s climate history. New research on ancient Antarctic ice and the air trapped within it is extendi...

New Paleo Research: Modern ‘Climate Change’ Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns

Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record. In the last 300 to 7...

Scientists Rethink Extreme Warming After Surprising Ocean Discovery

Researchers have applied a temperature proxy to exceptionally well-preserved fossil phytoplankton for the first time. The results suggest that conditions in the North Atlantic have...

New Paleo Research: Modern ‘Climate Change’ Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns

Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record. The post New Paleo R...

Lamont Paleoclimatologist Maureen Raymo Receives the 2026 Nemmers Prize

Raymo received the award for her pioneering development of hypotheses that explain climate change across Earth’s history, and her educational leadership in the Earth system science...

Scientists just uncovered a 3 million-year climate mystery in Antarctic ice

Ancient Antarctic ice is revealing a surprising new chapter in Earth’s climate story, stretching back 3 million years. By analyzing tiny pockets of trapped air and rare gases, scie...

Researchers Find Rapid Global Warming Phase At End Of Last Ice Age (Ca.18,000 Years Ago)

The Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) has posted its latest Klimaschau video, titled “Prähistorische Ozeanschichten als möglicher Faktor der Erwärmung...

Human-caused climate change is unmistakably distinct from Earth’s natural climate variability

This is a re-post from Staying Curious by Dean Rovang This post presents two figures that are the culmination of an extended effort to build the strongest possible empirical case f...

New Study Improves Past Ocean Change Records and Foraminifera Climate Proxy Accuracy

New ocean temperature reconstruction study improves past ocean change records by enhancing foraminifera climate proxy accuracy, helping scientists refine climate data and temperatu...

Ancient Antarctic Dust Reveals Signs of a Diminished Ross Ice Shelf

Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been far smaller during one of Earth’s most recent warm periods, according to a new study.

An Inconvenient Tree: Uncovered In Alps… Europe Much Warmer Than Today 6000 Years Ago

The presence of such biological material is undeniable evidence that glaciers have historically expanded and retreated in natural cycles long before industrial CO2 emissions [04:10...

Earth’s orbital wobble triggered rapid climate chaos during the dinosaur age

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free greenhouse periods. By studying ancient sediments from the Late...

An Inconvenient Tree: Uncovered In Alps… Europe Much Warmer Than Today 6000 Years Ago

Growing climate skepticism in Europe… An inconvenient tree found in the Alps shows climate was warmer 6000 years ago.  A recent video from the German language channel Report24news...

NTU researchers outline theory of ancient climate

Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s Desert Climates Were Recently Far Warmer, Wetter, Teeming With Life

Fuerteventura, one of the eight major Canary Islands, was not the “desert in the ocean” it is today throughout the Early to Middle Holocene. Scientists (Sánchez-Marco et al., 2026)...

Abrupt Climate Change Also Occurred NATURALLY In The Past …25 Times During Last Ice Age

Abrupt climate change also occurred naturally in the past  The following video from the “Klimaschau” series (No. 256), published by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (E...

Poop, stomach oil and ostrich eggshells keep records of Earth’s ancient climate

Earth's ancient climate is written in... ostrich eggshells and stomach oil?

Abrupt Climate Change Also Occurred NATURALLY In The Past …25 Times During Last Ice Age

Published studies show that science has long been aware of significantly more extreme and rapid temperature shifts throughout Earth’s history. The post Abrupt Climate Change Also O...

Mineral clues in Gale Crater track ancient Mars climate change

While NASA imagery has shown evidence of ancient rivers and lakes on Mars that transitioned to dry dunes, uncertainty remains over the timing of the environmental changes that may...

A 14-Million-Year Climate Record Is Hidden Within Australia’s Vanishing Twelve Apostles

Learn about Australia’s Twelve Apostles, iconic rock formations that hold millions of years of climate history and have been accurately dated for the first time.

Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s Desert Climates Were Recently Far Warmer, Wetter, Teeming With Life

Fuerteventura, one of the eight major Canary Islands, was not the “desert in the ocean” it is today throughout the Early to Middle Holocene. The post Cave Discovery Reveals Today’s...

The Climate Physics of Planet Earth

Building Earth is a new interactive map that explains how the Earth's climate has developed over millions of years through the lens of physics. The map strips the planet back to it...

New Digital Tool Lets You See Where Your Backyard Was Millions of Years Ago

Paleolatitude.org allows you to trace latitude changes for any given location throughout Earth's history.