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

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

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

The cold periods - or ice ages - are times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions. During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.