Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

By analyzing ancient climate records preserved in ocean sediments, researchers from Cardiff University, UC Santa Barbara, ...

Antarctica once teemed with forest life, a new study finds. But the world's seas and oceans looked different during one of ...

Rising temperatures are fueled, in part, by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate feedback loop.

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun. But their new ...

Alfred Wegener InstituteThe new study was based on sediment core samples taken in 2017 near the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. Though the Earth was much warmer when dinosaurs roamed 90 million ...

Klages, who led the team from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. The researchers previously found that a layer of mudstone in the area was ‘rich’ in microscopic fossils of spores or ...

German project brings RAS Grouper farming to Europe. Consortium composed of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Oceanloop and ...