Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Scientists found six-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, unlocking the planet’s oldest samples and evidence of dramatic long-term cooling.

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, ...

Sea levels rose and fell many times during the ice age, showing ice sheets were larger and more active much earlier than once believed.

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks ...

The story of Australia and its peoples is vast and deep. It's one you should know, but possibly one you've never been told. Well, not like this anyway.

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. As more and more water was transformed into ice, global sea levels dropped as much as 125 metres ...