In the study, SMU researchers present new glacial erosion rates estimated from sediment accumulations in Lago Argentino, ...

“We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth’s climate changes between glacial ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match ... prediction of when each interglacial period of the past million years or so would occur ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

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 ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium will soon debut a new Ice Age exhibit. The temporary exhibit, "Ice Age: Frozen in Time," runs ...

But throughout the period, the planet has wobbled on its path around the sun. The slight shifts cause ice ages to come and go. By 800,000 years ago, a cyclical pattern had emerged: Ice ages last ...

The Museum of Natural History’s Sidney Horenstein noted New York, at least, has risen roughly 150 feet following the retreat of the ice and the loss of its immense weight. The Earth’s crust still ...