An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...

The “incredible” find belonged to an animal estimated to have roamed the rugged region about 30,000 years ago, according to experts.

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years ...

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They share favorite segments.

Prehistoric fossils dating back to the Ice Age discovered in South Louisiana. What prehistoric animals used to roam Louisiana?

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Travel back 20,000 years into the last Ice Age, to a time when the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains were treeless and the ridgelines and mountain peaks laden in snow and ice. At an elevation of ...

The polar vortex is a massive, swirling band of cold air that normally traps frigid temperatures around the Arctic. However, recent scientific studies show this vortex is weakening, which could ...

The idea of an impending ice age has fascinated scientists and the public alike for decades, traditionally linked to Milankovitch cycles—long-term variations in Earth’s orbit and tilt. However ...