Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail is feeling the heat from federal funding changes, as the National Park Service office and the partnering nonprofit that supports the trail are caught up in the spending cuts ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22. That ...

Most NASA stories about sea ice records tend to start with the year 1979, when consistent observations started to be collected regularly by satellites. But we do know a bit about what happened before ...

Their high-speed movement in space makes time pass slower for them compared to people on Earth. Over six months, the difference is just 0.005 seconds. iStock Astronauts age slower in space due to ...

The Earth is exposed to restless forces ... Today, as melting ice sheets push ocean levels higher, scientists are looking back to a time when the planet last emerged from an ice age and experienced ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earth's geological age is estimated to be approximately 4.5 billion years old. Of course, Mother Earth doesn't look a day over 3 billion. There have ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...