Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

Ice ages occurred long before this as well, hundreds of millions of years ago, but here the focus is on the past 2.6 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of how the last Ice Age ended is being rewritten from the bottom up, as new records etched into the sea floor ...

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 ...

In recent years, curious finds by quarry workers in gravel pits near Grunthal have led to some remarkable discoveries about ...

The claim: The 'six great ice ages' began when CO2 was higher than now; all plants and animals die when CO2 levels are cut in half A July 4 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, ...

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 ...

In an age of rising sea levels, as polar ice sheets melt in a climate warmed by fossil fuel emissions, climate modelers are ...

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A research team ...