Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research. A team of ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of an extraordinarily powerful solar storm that bombarded Earth 14,300 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. This event was far more intense than any solar ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 years of Earth's dramatic Ice ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah on Saturday, June 7, 2025, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Los Angeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and ...