The findings underline the urgency for humankind to pivot away from fossil fuels. Scientists make stunning discovery about ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to ... caused by a combination of Earth's rotation and heating of the atmosphere by the Sun Alley, R. B. Ice-core evidence of abrupt ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally offer answers. A team at the University of Arizona has ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ... present the first record of ocean heat content during the ends of the last four ice ages and the subsequent warm periods, enabling the team to ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...