Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Scientists are investigating whether a massive meteor strike played a role in triggering Earth’s greatest Ice Age. Evidence suggests a cataclysmic impact may have altered the atmosphere ...

(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ago, a symptom of climate change that will have repercussions globally, scientists said ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22. That ...

Most NASA stories about sea ice records tend to start with the year 1979, when consistent observations started to be collected regularly by satellites. But we do know a bit about what happened before ...

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to enable better predictions of how current ice melting will affect levels around ...

(AP Video/Silvia Stellacci) The day before the European Day of the artisanal ice cream, pilgrims and tourists are offered free jubilee-inspired Hallelujah ice cream as they arrive at the Vatican, ...

and millions of people around the globe joined the initiative, signalling a unified call for greater efforts to protect the planet. — europarlAV (@europarlAV) This collective global action highlights ...