Currents of magma within our planet move the plates that form the continental crust in ... and it drives our planet's weather and climate by creating temperature gradients in the atmosphere ...

Coastal areas experience less seasonal variation in their climates than do continental interiors. Winters are milder, summers cooler, and the temperature swing between daytime high and nighttime ...

record for climate change. This record indicates decreasing deep-water temperature, along with the build-up of continental ice sheets. Much of this deep-water cooling occurred in three major steps ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.