Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

About 125,000 years ago, when Earth was warmer than preindustrial levels, Greenland was covered by a significantly smaller ice sheet, and the sea level was as much as 19 feet higher than today.

Antarctica is more than just a block of ice. Beneath its frozen surface, water travels through channels deep below the ice sheet. The subglacial water ... as the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, 34 million ...

While the pyramids, built around 4,500 years ago, remain an architectural mystery ... global climate change and mass extinctions. While ice cores from Greenland and geological data from the ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

Temperature in the Arctic was 1 to 2 °C (1.8 to 3.6 °F) above average in the region and the surrounding seas. The Bering Sea ...

Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...