If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

In a fascinating find beneath the waves of the Barents Sea, researchers have discovered anunderwater mud volcano dating back to the end of the last Ice Age. Located approximately 70 miles south of ...

Global warming may be making some people nervous now, but from 1810 to 1819, people worried because the Earth was colder than usual. For an entire decade, the Earth cooled almost a full degree ...

New research from multiple ice cores collected across Greenland with data spanning up to 120,000 years provides new understanding of abrupt Dansgaard-Oeschger events, how they unfold and what that ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds – or Fermi bubbles – at the Milky Way’s center. The finding challenges current models of Fermi bubble ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jared Wildenradt is likely the most prolific hiker of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail ever, and he doesn't plan to stop anytime soon. Lisa Siewert teaches geology and geography at the University of ...