Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice ...

Angela Fitzgerald explores Interstate Park's Ice Age geology and 125-year history. Shaped by Ice Age glaciers, Interstate Park is Wisconsin's oldest state park. Angela speaks with property supervisor ...

Earth is believed to have experienced its most severe ice age around 700 million years ago, which left behind geological ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL–The widely accepted theory that changes in Earth’s orbit drive cycles of glaciation can’t account for an early thawing of glaciers from the next-to-last ice age, according to ...

Today, oxygen levels are significantly higher, weakening that feedback loop. As human activity continues to add CO₂ to the ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer, ...

A team of scientists thinks the planet may have been thrust into its longest ice age because less gas leaked out of volcanoes. By Katrina Miller Around 717 million years ago, Earth’s humid landscapes ...

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a “warm ice age” permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. Contemporaneous with this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A ...

West Antarctica's History Of Rapid Melting Foretells Sudden Shifts In Continent's 'Catastrophic' Geology. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass ...

Teufelsschlucht is a striking sandstone gorge near Echternacherbrück in Rhineland-Palatinate. Formed during the Ice Age, the ...