Recent studies speculate that massive depopulation, especially in the Americas, which removed the torch and allowed forests ...

The remnants of a glacier on an island in the Canadian Arctic could be the oldest proof of their existence - and tell us about what a future ice age could look like. A landslide of thawing permafrost ...

Only a few thousand years ago, the planet's geography was drastically different than it is today. Massive ice sheets stored atop the poles lowered sea levels and exposed a number of interesting and ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Let’s talk about data. Just the facts. These data are information gathered by satellites, instruments on the ground (thermometers, wind speed gauges, etc.), lasers and the many other ways humans use ...

“It was exciting to see the ice age as we drilled deeper ... about why this transition occurred and how it shaped our planet’s climate system.” During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition ...

Boasting majestic ridged horns that are prized in Chinese medicine, it was once hunted to the brink of extinction. But ...

But ice contains more information than just age. Scientists can deduce a particle time ... "The relevance of this project lies in its capacity to answer fundamental questions about our planet’s ...

A core of ice extracted from Antarctica had literally frozen in time the climate of the planet going back nearly 70,000 years.

Researchers have now identified and examined million-year-old bones of the big cat and have come to some surprising conclusions about how it adapted to the Ice Age and survived as a species since then ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...