A July 13 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) features a graph charting historic atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and temperature variations over the past 400,000 years. “Antarctic ice core ...

Sea levels rose and fell many times during the ice age, showing ice sheets were larger and more active much earlier than once ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

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

Mars has experienced multiple ice ages, with each one leaving less ice than the last. By studying craters that serve as “ice archives,” researchers traced how the red planet stored and lost its water ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere vary naturally between ice ages and interglacial periods. A new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg shows that an unexpectedly large proportion ...

PBS is heading into the ice. The public broadcaster has teamed with Australian public broadcaster ABC on natural history series Ages of Ice. The three-part series follows the brave scientists pushing ...

For decades, scientists have been curious about how much water Mars once had and what led to its gradual transformation into the dry planet we see today. A new study published online on September 2, ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.