Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

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

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation ... may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries. Still, ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to ... caused by a combination of Earth's rotation and heating of the atmosphere by the Sun Alley, R. B. Ice-core evidence of abrupt ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric ...

Each variation reflects a major climatic change. For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had previously covered ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...