Earth's climate system

Decline in CO2 levels a million-years-ago changed Earth's climate: Study

Around one million years ago, during the MPT, the period of the cycles abruptly changed to every 100,000 years.  

Nov 28, 2017, 18:17 PM IST

2015 a 'tipping point' for climate change

When future generations write the history of humanity's faltering quest to repair Earth's climate system, 2015 will have its own chapter. Nature, along with the usually fractious family of nations, conspired to make it a landmark year: almost certainly the hottest on record for the planet as a whole, and a rare moment of unity when 195 states pledged to curb the carbon pollution that drives global warming.

Jan 18, 2016, 13:25 PM IST