Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

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

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

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

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

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

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

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS) welcomed a new Ice Age exhibit. “Giants of the Ice ...

Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets buried continents, oceans shrank, and land bridges formed where seas now ...

Compared with Earth, Mars is tiny, yet it seems to have an outsized effect on our planet’s climate cycles. Similar small planets could affect the climates of worlds beyond our solar system, which we ...

Artist's impression of Earth around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi Scientists at ...