Professor John Chiang of UC Berkeley explains the impact of Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity on global climate. He ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now.

You’ve probably started to notice that it is lighter for longer but why is this the case? If you guessed our tilt and ...

Happily, not much sun exposure is required for many people to meet their vitamin D needs. Ten minutes of sun exposure at a UV ...

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Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance ...

From the warmest year on record to an arctic blast and even snow, marine biologists are concerned about weather and climate ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

For those tired of the dark, dreary days of winter, February is the month of optimism. This is the month where we gain the ...

Whether life could survive on such an extreme world is unknown. On Earth, our seasons are driven by our planet's 23.4-degree tilt; for instance, northern summer occurs when our planet's northern ...

The longest day of the year, or Summer Solstice, is on or about June 21, plus or minus a day thanks to Leap Year. The axis of rotation of the Earth is slightly tilted at 23.5 degrees. This means ...

When it's in that part of the orbit, it's around 147 million kilometres from the Sun. So during our summer, when Earth's tilt ...