Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...
Over 2.4 billion years ago, Earth entered one of the most extreme climate events in its history — the Huronian Glaciation. For up to 300 million years, vast ice sheets covered the planet in what may ...
A light microscope image of a planktonic foraminifera collected from the water in the Southwest Indian Ocean. (Photo by Tracy Aze, University of Leeds via Courthouse News) (CN) — Carbon is one of the ...
Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets... What space dust reveals about Earth's ice age Around ...
Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets buried continents, oceans shrank, and land bridges formed where seas now ...