Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

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Global warming may overshoot, driving extreme cooling and potentially triggering Earth’s next ice age, scientists warn.

Around 20,000 years ago, Earth was very, very cold. Global temperatures were 10 degrees Fahrenheit colder than they are today and most of North America was covered in ice. That ice was almost half a ...

Earth’s climate is not only shaped by smokestacks, forests, and oceans. It is also quietly tuned by the slow choreography of ...

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.