In the broad sense, Earth is still in an ice age because permanent ice remains at the poles, and the current warmth is an ...

An event that seemed to condemn marine life 445 million years ago actually played a decisive role in the rise of the animals ...

Pokagon State Park’s 8-mile Hell’s Point Challenge has been open since 2017. To complete it, you must hike a mapped route ...

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA images expose how the Red Planet’s climate once dramatically shifted.

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaiʻi Island has revealed important insights about how past climate changes affected the region and how these shifts could ...

Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of these parameters' cycles and clues hidden at the bottom of the ocean. When you ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to a ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...