Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

An annual hiking challenge is back this October, encouraging people to get outside and enjoy the fall colors along the Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Wisconsin. The Ice Age Trail Alliance's Mammoth ...

High above the Arctic, powerful winds are breaking apart — and the effects could reshape the planet. This film investigates how a collapsing polar vortex might lead to a new Ice Age. Trump's plan to ...

Scientists in Ireland are studying the ancient British-Irish Ice Sheet in an attempt to better understand the future, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported. Their work involves mapping and ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda bottle, that reduced pressure slowed down a process of critical carbon ...

Between 780,000 and 12,000 years ago, Europe’s climate swung between freezing stretches and warmer periods that allowed hippopotamuses to migrate out of Africa into Europe, where they thrived as far ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

A Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that melting North American ice sheets were the primary driver of dramatic sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, ...

In recent years, immigration detention in Georgia has been a distinctly rural phenomenon. The hulking facilities that have made the state a national leader in the lockup of immigrants sit out of ...

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age than scientists had thought, according to a Tulane University-led study ...

Federal authorities announced they have arrested 28 people in recent months at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland for charges including assault on officers and destruction of ...

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North America. The mountain glaciers of Yosemite National Park are projected to melt ...