Rising temperatures are causing glaciers to lose ice at a rate higher than the average rate over past centuries.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

Carbon emissions probably canceled Earth’s next icy climate appointment, expected to occur in 10,000 years In a nutshell ...

Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the shape of the Earth's orbit of the sun — how the Earth ‘wobbles' in space — and the angle of the planet's ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Finstad's team explored nearly a dozen mountain sites at the Lendbreen glacier, an ancient mountain pass used from the Viking ...

Those ridges are called end moraines and were formed during the Wisconsin glacial episode, popularly known as the last Ice Age. As the glaciers began retreating some 20,000 to 25,000 years ago the ...

Tristan Duke uses Arctic ice and a unique technique to offer a fresh perspective on a world transformed by climate change.

In the Yukon, Kluane National Park and Reserve includes 17 of Canada’s 20 tallest mountains and the world’s largest non-polar ...

Melting glaciers at the end of the Ice Age may have sped up continental drift, fueled volcanic eruptions. University of Colorado at Boulder. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08846-x.