Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

While the Milankovitch Cycles operate on timescales far longer than human lifespans, their effects are always at play.

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA ...

Albuquerque museum curator helps identify Speleotherium logani, a previously unknown muskox relative that roamed the region ...

Something in the Atlantic is shifting, though it is not easy to see from the surface. There are no dramatic waves or sudden ...

Global warming may overshoot, driving extreme cooling and potentially triggering Earth’s next ice age, scientists warn.

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 ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

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Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...