Earth Sciences

Deluges of Biblical proportions were apparently not all that uncommon when glaciers were more prevalent in the Eurasian continent. A glacier served as a natural dam for Siberian rivers and gigantic…

Growing inside the caves of the tropical Pacific island of Borneo are some of the keys to understanding how the Earth's climate suddenly changed - several times - over the last 25,000 years. By…

Analyses conducted by researchers from Université Laval’s Center for Northern Studies reveal that aquatic life in Ward Hunt Lake, the continent’s northernmost lake, is affected by climate change.…

A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever - 150 percent more than average. Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth…

Researchers at the University of Bristol say their analysis of sediments from a British bog suggest that methane emissions increased around 55 million years ago due to intense global warming - not…

Peat and vegetation in northern areas may help protect permafrost from the effects of climate change, according to a recent study by McMaster researchers published in Geophysical Research Letters.…

The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut…

Large continental ice sheets did not exist in both hemispheres around 41 million years ago during the warmer-than modern conditions of the time. This is the finding of scientists from the University…

A new interpretation of data from NASA’s Viking landers indicates that 0.1% of the Martian soil tested could have a biological origin. Dr Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany,…

Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California,…