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

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

“The emperor penguin is the largest penguin species on Earth.” The emperor penguin is the largest ... they are being ...

Kiwi climate researchers are part of an ambitious mission to recover critical geological records to help forecast future ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

The world has already warmed 1.49°C (2.6°F) compared to pre-industrial levels, according to new research using Antarctic ice ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...