Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

Only a few thousand years ago, the planet's geography was drastically different than it is today. Massive ice sheets stored ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.

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 ...

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 experienced numerous times. These periods are marked by significant drops in ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) As humanity appears all too happy to keep warming up the planet, the consequences of our actions ... If the AMOC collapses, middle and northern Europe might be in for a new ...

It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had previously covered Earth disappeared. The Holocene has seen major change on our planet, including the rapid population growth of our ...

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 ...