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 ...

A research team, composed of climatologists and an astronomer, have used an improved computer model to reproduce the cycle of ice ages (glacial periods) 1.6 to 1.2 million years ago. The results show ...

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years. Why, after ...

Buried beneath a half mile of snow and ice in Greenland, scientists have uncovered an impact crater large enough to swallow the District of Columbia. The finding suggests that a giant iron asteroid ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

UB students are mixing fieldwork with the latest developments in AI to map and understand the ever-changing glacial ice in Greenland. This work is taking place in the Glacier Modeling Lab in the ...

A group led by Dartmouth researcher Meredith Kelly is sampling sediment from local bodies of water to learn more about how melting happened during the last Ice Age — in hopes of anticipating the ...

If you think this stretch of Central Illinois is flat, ask one of those cycling enthusiasts who pedal far out into the countryside. They’ll tell you about a subtly deceiving, gently rolling landscape ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...