A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

Curious and puzzling objects are appearing as glaciers around the world continue to thaw. From oddly shaped wooden tools and ...

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When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

The clues to this forgotten climate saga weren’t discovered in ice cores or tree rings but rather in human memories — diaries ...

Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun. But their new ...

The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless human-caused global warming disrupts natural ...

Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.

The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania ...

Glacial cycles aren’t random; they follow a predictable rhythm dictated by Earth’s orbit. A study analyzing climate records ...

For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and ...