The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

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 ...

may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries. Still, there were limits. Fire and life had coevolved across 420 million years, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman who has longed to learn to skate since she was a child is one of scores of people calling for a town to have its own ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.

Miss Vince, an admissions officer at Earlscliffe boarding school in Folkestone, said: “Now I have taken it up, I wish I had learnt it from a younger age. Planet Ice skating rink in Gillingham is ...

From scoring races to captaincies to commercials, Matthews and McDavid have a lot in common. A look inside the rivalry.

Recent studies speculate that massive depopulation, especially in the Americas, which removed the torch and allowed forests to reclaim land and so sequester atmospheric carbon, may have even helped ...