A study has found that even though the planet is warming up, we might be going towards another ice age. It sounds paradoxical, but scientists say it is possible. Researchers from the University of ...

Global warming is usually framed as a one-way trajectory toward ever hotter conditions, but new research suggests Earth’s climate may be capable of swinging much further than expected, even far enough ...

Researchers at UC Riverside say they have identified a critical gap in how scientists have long understood Earth's carbon recycling system. By filling in this missing piece, they now believe that ...

NASA satellites have spotted tiny red plankton swarming global waters. (Image: NASA) NASA satellites have spotted tiny red plankton swarming global waters. Scientists are shocked by their scale and ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

In the grand theater of planetary climate, Earth has always played a balancing act, teetering between fire and ice, warmth and chill, life and lifelessness. But a new study from UC Riverside suggests ...

Computer simulation of Earth’s climate evolving over 1 million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Credit: Andy Ridgwell/UCR UC Riverside researchers have ...

Computer simulation of Earth's climate evolving over one million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was ...