In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

New geochemical sleuthing has pushed Earth’s climate record into almost unimaginable territory, revealing seawater that once chilled to about minus 15° C without turning to ice. The finding comes from ...