How Mars impacts Earth's climate

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...
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For More Than 250 Million Years, Coral Reefs Have Had a Major Influence on Earth’s Changing Climate

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Coral reefs have stabilized Earth's carbon cycle for the past 250 million years, research reveals

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...
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Project Planet: Climate cycles and the history of climate change

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - There have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods over the last 800,000 years, according to NASA. This is based on data from natural records of climate, an example ...
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Greenhouse gases, not Milankovitch cycles, drive modern global warming | Fact check

A July 18 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, features an illustration of the sun. "THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly ...
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Ancient El Niño? Mysterious climate cycle blamed for millennia of chaotic weather.

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on our ...
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The Milankovitch Cycles That Could Push Earth Into A Drastic Climate Reset

New research is drawing urgent attention to Milankovitch cycles — the slow but powerful orbital rhythms that have dictated ...
Earth.com

Cosmic cycles that shifted Earth’s oxygen may have triggered life’s greatest expansion

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.
EurekAlert!

How the plant world shapes the climate cycle

Over the course of hundreds of millions of years, Earth has lived through a series of climatic shifts, shaping the planet as we know it today. Past changes in CO 2 levels and temperature can help us ...
ucdavis.edu

Among the Academies: Forecasting Earth’s Response

Professor Isabel Montañez, a chancellor’s leadership professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined UC Davis in 1998.(Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Our planet’s history is one of ...
KUTV

From deluges to drought: Climate change speeds up water cycle, triggers more extreme weath

Associated Press — Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that can wreak havoc on people and the ...
THE WEEK

How climate change is impacting the water cycle

Climate change has caused many ecological and environmental changes including more extreme weather, record-high temperatures and more risk of disease. However, climate change may have also altered the ...