Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

The Ice Age was a hard period in Earth's history, but ancient humans were quite the hardy bunch. They managed survive and ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years. While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred during periods ... last ice age have shown ...

Regardless, the ice core could contain evidence as to why the shift in the length of ice age periods occurred. Ice cores contain layers of snowfall that have been compressed over time, trapping ...

An international team of scientists announced Thursday they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles (2.8 kilometers) to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice they ...

Previous research has shown that levels of atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas, spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,000 years ago.