Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

(NewsNation) — A supernova could have triggered one of the Earth’s ice ages, something that could happen again in the future. A new study revealed the timing of the Vela supernova aligned with a ...

BOULDER, Colo. — A massive star exploded around 13,000 years ago, and research now suggests that the cosmic blast may have plummeted Earth into a sudden ice age while wiping out woolly mammoths, giant ...

A Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that melting North American ice sheets were the primary ...

What processes have regulated climate over the course of Earth’s history? Researchers are addressing this question in the ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

Discover the natural causes of climate change with Milankovitch Cycles, impacting Earth's orbit, axis, and solar energy distribution.

Nearly 600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption sent clouds of sulfurous gas and ash high into the atmosphere. The blast ...

Several of California’s Sierra glaciers that persisted through the Holocene are now on track to vanish within this century.

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...