Adriana Dutkiewicz

Thingvellir national park, where two tectonic plates meet in Iceland. Tina Zupancic/Getty Images

January 19, 2026

The way Earth’s surface moves has a bigger impact on shifting the climate than we knew

Ben Mather, The University of Melbourne; Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney

Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

Dietmar Muller

March 12, 2024

Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Slah Boulila, Sorbonne Université

Deep-sea sediments show how the changing orbits of Earth and Mars are linked to past global warming and the speeding up of deep-ocean eddies.

Salvatore Allegra / AP

May 25, 2022

Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney; Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds; Ben Mather, University of Sydney; Christopher Gonzalez, The University of Western Australia; Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney; Tobias Keller, ETH Zurich; Weronika Gorczyk, The University of Western Australia, and Jo Condon, The University of Melbourne

New modelling shows how tectonic plate movements, carbon-rich deep-sea sediment, and mountain weathering have regulated Earth’s climate.