In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and ice, warmth ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

UC Riverside researchers reveal how the planet is on track to cool to extreme temperatures within 100,000 years due to a ...

New research shows warming events can, under certain conditions, trigger long-term cooling strong enough to resemble past ice ages.

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have created a more accurate model of global carbon cycling. The model better accounts for the contributions of Earth’s terrestrial ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

Reaching net-zero carbon emissions goals requires finding transformative paths to manage carbon in difficult-to-electrify economic sectors. A major approach to achieving net-zero carbon emissions ...

The carbon cycle is a natural process that plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system. However, human activities have ...

If marine heatwaves start to disrupt the carbon pump around India — just as seen in Alaska — then more carbon might stay near the surface or return to the atmosphere.

What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in the ...