The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme climate events in Earth’s history. Beginning around 717 million years ago ...

Ancient volcanoes in the Arctic may have trapped Earth in repeated "Snowball Earth" freezes for 56 million years.

If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the moon in ...

For 56 million years, Earth appears to have lurched between two extremes that are hard to picture together: a planet sealed in global ice, then a world hot enough to strip carbon dioxide from the sky ...

Earth may respond to the huge quantities of carbon dioxide (CO 2) that humans are pumping into the atmosphere by "overcorrecting" the imbalance, which could result in the next ice age arriving on time ...

Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets buried continents, oceans shrank, and land bridges formed where seas now ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

A new study from China University explores how millennial-scale climate variability, traditionally linked to ice-sheet dynamics, occurred during warm greenhouse house periods when ice sheets were ...

Scientists have retrieved the deepest sediment core ever from beneath Antarctic ice, spanning nearly 23 million years. This remarkable find, recovered from Crary Ice Rise, offers crucial insights into ...