The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme ...

California may be known as the Golden State, with its shimmering beaches and warm Mediterranean climate. But clinging to the ...

"They highlight what’s missing." Scientists make alarming discovery in samples from last Ice Age: 'You can't model the future unless you understand what happened' first appeared on The Cool Down.

New research shows that today’s global warming could eventually overshoot into runaway cooling, setting the stage for a ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah on Saturday, June 7, 2025, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 ...

New research finds the disappearance of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada will be unprecedented in the human history of North ...

For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 years of Earth's dramatic Ice ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up history. “It was a shot in the dark when we decided to core this lake ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

The present-day landscape across New York was sculpted by powerful ice sheet forces and catastrophic glacial meltwater flooding. Recently available, freely-accessible high-resolution digital terrain ...