Global warming could eventually bring about a new ice age on Earth, aided by organic carbon buried in the deep ocean, ...

The curious minds at What If examine the sudden onset of a new ice age on Earth, revealing the drastic changes to climate, ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Australian scientists have drilled 400 metres into the Antarctic ice sheet, to retrieve ice that formed at the end of the ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Scientists revived new species frozen for 40,000 years - and the U.S. military believes their survival secrets could protect troops in extreme cold.

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

Follow in the footsteps of a Welsh king by scaling Cader Idris, but beware: it’s said those who sleep on the peak are ...

It looks unstoppable - two tons of muscle wrapped in armor, carrying one of the most powerful natural weapons ever evolved. For millions of years, the rhinoceros dominated through sheer force, ...