Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is ...

The last Ice Age wasn't just cold — it was incredibly dry. This video unpacks how freezing global temperatures stripped the ...

They don't cause ice ages, but they do control the volume of things like glaciation and the factors that can trigger ice ages. Kane's simulations show that without Mars the frequent and intense ...

A light microscope image of a planktonic foraminifera collected from the water in the Southwest Indian Ocean. (Photo by Tracy Aze, University of Leeds via Courthouse News) (CN) — Carbon is one of the ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...

A cyanobacterial mat fragment sampled from the edge of a meltwater pond during a 2018 Antarctic expedition. (Roger Summons / MIT Summons Lab) (CN) — Scientists led by a team from the Massachusetts ...

Computer simulation of Earth's climate evolving over one million years in response to a sudden release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.