Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions ...

Nitrogen is an important component of the global environment, affecting agriculture, climate, human health, and ecosystems.

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

A new review reveals how tiny shell-building plankton quietly drive carbon cycling and influence global climate change.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed light on how human-generated emissions will shape our planet’s future. Reading ...

Ten years after nearly every nation on the planet signed the historic Paris Agreement, a new United Nations report warns that ...