Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...

The key players in these cycles are Earth's obliquity, the precession of its rotational axis and the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Notably, a 1976 study found geological evidence showing that two of Earth's parameters — obliquity and precession, or changes in Earth's axial tilt and how the axis wobbles around itself ...

This limitation hampers further applications in this domain. Therefore, under narrowband radar observation conditions, this paper proposes a method for μD TF characteristics extraction and scatterer ...

Analyzing nearly ... Damaging Cluster of UK Winter Storms Driven by Swirling Polar Vortex Miles Above Earth Mar. 27, 2025 — Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK ...

Apr. 4, 2025 — Exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke was associated with increased visits to emergency departments (ED) for mental health conditions, according ...

Diatomaceous earth is a type of sand that consists of fossilized algae. It is sometimes sold as a supplement and promoted as having some health benefits, but very limited research supports these ...

The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of day and night are approximately equal ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...