At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

A massive ice sheet once covered much of Canada and the northern U.S., causing land shifts as it melted. New research shows ...

A new study led by Virginia Tech has found that, after the last global ice age, Earth went through a dramatic and rapid ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ...

8, 2024 — New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ... transition through the Earth's ice ages.

Researchers are working on technology that could follow NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and hunt for life in the ocean of ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

The University of Victoria professor helped rewrite a crucial part of our planet’s history by identifying compelling evidence ...

All people on Earth depend on the cryosphere. Snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost are significant reservoirs ...