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 ...

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.

Explore the concept of 'snowball earth' and recent findings on climate variability during this ancient icy period.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked ...

A new study by The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated a possible link between life on Earth and the movement of continents. The findings show that sediment, which is often comprised from ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science ...