At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

A key Atlantic current could be pushed to the brink of collapse within decades, supposedly ushering in a new ice age and dramatically raising sea levels, climate scientists have claimed in a ...

If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense systemic changes ...

(The Hill) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is eliminating the age cap on new hires, allowing people older than 40 to join its deportation force. The move will end the limitations on ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

Tom Hiddleston returns as narrator for a bigger, wilder chapter set deep in the Pleistocene. One of Apple’s most ambitious natural-history projects is finally returning. “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age” ...