Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet — using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

Scientists have determined that over the last million years, land formations created by a massive ice sheet have been ...

Scientists Baffled After Recovering 1.7-Mile-Long Ice Samples Dating Back 1.2 Million Years, Call It a ‘Time Machine’ ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above 10,000 feet – about 600 feet higher than where the ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives—a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of significant cooling from the early 14th to mid-19th centuries, which saw mean temperatures ...