Margin of the Barnes Ice Cap. (Nicolás Young) Earth is constantly molded by fire and ice, and not in a poetic sense. These ...

A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how burning fossil fuels may have stopped an ice age in its ...

Earth was building up its ice sheets around 2,000 years ago, signaling the dawn of a new ice age. But don’t expect mammoth ...

Plants uncovered by melting Arctic ice have revealed a surprising change in its history. Scientists believe that the findings ...

Earth’s persistently frozen poles mean the last ice age never really came to an end. What we think of as the mammoth-romping, ...

All that's left of a gargantuan ice sheet that once covered nearly 30 percent of North America is a Delaware-size ice cap in ...

Researchers have found evidence that warming, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, reversed the advance of a new ice age.

Very recently, the journal Science published a study that should make both sides of the climate debate a little uncomfortable ...

Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new glacial period, more conversationally known as the next ice age—but by the ...