Researchers have analysed the oxygen isotope ratios in fossilised dinosaur teeth, specifically the tooth enamel. The tooth ...

The lifespan of oxygen-rich atmospheres may be shorter than we previously thought,” Georgia Institute of Technology’s ...

Earth's atmosphere also extends well into space, increasing its detectability. Atmospheric escape continually replenishes Earth's exosphere with hydrogen.

Rocks tell us a story which most climate scientists seem to have ignored in their panic about a runaway greenhouse effect ...

Millions of years ago, long-necked sauropods and snarling Tyrannosaurs roamed a world thick with heat, teeming forests, and ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel since the start of the Cambrian period (541 million to 485.4 million years ago), and both factors spiked between ...

Atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases released from fossil fuel combustion continue to rise. In 2024, the concentration of carbon dioxide hit amounts unseen in at least two million years ...

The 2023 methane increase over 2022 was 10.9 ppb. In 2023, levels of nitrous oxide, the third-most significant human-caused greenhouse gas, climbed by 1 ppb to 336.7 ppb.

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

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