Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

Groundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming ...

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, ...

The 30x30 initiative is a worldwide effort to designate 30 percent of Earth’s lands and oceans as protected areas by 2030. This is a good first step towards planetary health that most communities can ...

During ice ages, ice sheets like the one in Greenland have covered much of Earth's surface. Thor Wegner/DeFodi Images via Getty Images ...

Published in Nature Geoscience, the research suggests that Earth’s oxygen could vanish in about one billion years—shedding new light on the long-term evolution of our planet’s atmosphere. The team ran ...

Natural History Museum of Utah's newest temporary exhibit serendipitously offers a new lens on the state's newest mascot, and ...

This is one of the human groups that frequented the Pyrenean Mountains during the period known as the Last Glacial Maximum, or Ice Age. These Homo sapiens – nomadic hunter-gatherers ... Flint’s ...

A quirk in Earth’s planetary mechanics periodically ... The most recent one began at the end of the last ice age, roughly 12,000 years ago, and persisted until about 4,500 years ago.

Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in ... Much of that region remained unglaciated even in the last ice age. Shubin notes how a definition of the Arctic is elusive.

Rather, associated environmental stressors like poor water quality and warming climates led, in combination, to its demise about 10,000 years ago (towards the end of the last ice age). The ensuing ...