PARIS — Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels while the Arctic is poised to log one of its worst winters on ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth froze over so completely that even tropical oceans turned to ice, an episode scientists ...

Scientists discover that giant columns of softer ice within the Greenland ice sheet behave like pasta boiling, due to ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo challenges a long-standing assumption about Earth's most extreme ice ages. Using numerical ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo scientists Sophie Nowicki and Beata Csatho are part of an international team chosen for a NASA satellite mission designed to improve predictions of environmental ...

A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

In the whole history of Earth’s climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call “Snowball Earth.” But scientists still wonder why these events happen in the first place and what ...

Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...