Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

The geological evidence present so far suggests that the continent before 34 million years was ice-free and that the newly ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago – nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one ...

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually ...

From orbit, much of Greenland appears seamless. A white expanse, unbroken, stretching across the map like a frozen shield. The northwestern sector, sparsely studied compared to the south and west, has ...

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

Historic Rangeley is highlighting the Vail Site exhibit, which documents the earliest known human presence in western Maine ...

It was a beautiful but cold day when I decided to hike Charlestown State Park. I was staying with family down in the area. It ...

The White House, led by Donald Trump, has ramped up efforts to pressure Denmark into seceding Greenland to the US.

Discover the effects of the FEMA no-rise rule floodplain restoration on flooding issues and how it affects disaster ...