A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Geologists are like the Time Lords of TV’s “Doctor Who” series, Julie Brigham-Grette likes to say. She’s among the scientists studying the Pliocene Epoch and the clues 3-million-year-old events may ...

We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million years ago. Our research, published today, shows that up to one third of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that the most revealing slice ...

Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of ...

To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking 3 million years into the past. They have concluded that the most revealing slice of time is the Pliocene ...

The Tiombó conglomerate on Isla del Carmen in Baja California Sur represents a mega-delta deposited mainly during the middle Pliocene (early Piacenzian age). A cross-section with the ...

Sparse trees cast long shadows as the morning sun rises over the grassy woodland clearing. Elephants and rhinos gather around a quiet watering hole. A troop of baboons starts chattering as they wake ...

In May 2013, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere hit a previously unthinkable milestone. For the first time in human history, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's air reached ...