A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how burning fossil fuels may have stopped an ice age in its ...
Humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions may have warmed the planet enough to reverse the next ice age. In a study published ...
Ancient ice discovered high in Tibet may be more than 128,000 years old, preserving an extraordinary record of Earth's ...
Researchers just uncovered evidence of a long-term cooling trend that was accidentally interrupted by modern warming.
Ancient sediments in Sweden reveal new clues about the Younger Dryas, a mysterious deep freeze that began nearly 12,800 years ...
Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the ...
Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course. The findings shows the Barnes ...
A woman whose bone lay in Isturitz Cave carried ancestry from central and eastern Europe, and human DNA from cave dirt in ...
Future emissions could forestall the next ice age for hundreds of thousands of years, altering one of Earth’s most ...