“It is quite hard to believe that the pattern has not been seen before ... A looming ice age? Scientists find a striking pattern in Earth's history.

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

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 ...

Before Ice Age Fossils State Park ... Eventually, the lake dried up from earth faulting and “a trend toward dryness” over thousands of years, he said. Five decades after the dig, momentum ...

Previous analysis indicates that Earth endured a roughly 200–300 year long ice age starting around 540 CE. Scientists believe that powerful volcanic eruptions that hurled massive amounts of ash ...

As an ice sheet thousands ... humans and past the age of dinosaurs — to 200 to 300 million years ago when a hot spot, or plume of hot material, from underneath Earth’s crust created a low ...

Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of all freshwater ice on Earth is sitting on top of Greenland ... and that could spawn a mini ice age, according to some experts. That's not even the worst of it.

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread ... Canada formed several thousand years before those in Europe. Moreover, the sediments ...