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.

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought to be uninhabitable ...

But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a landmass that was last exposed 40 million years ago. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul The 1-Ingredient ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are ...

Melting ice ... years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help scientists and policymakers understand what to expect as today's ice sheets ...

If fossil fuel emissions increased over the next 25 years ... ice sheet near Nuuk, Greenland in this July 26, 2011 photo. Massive ice sheets in western Antarctica and Greenland are melting much faster ...

(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Inhabited by Inuits on and off for almost 4,500 years ... surface is covered by ice. Colonised by Denmark 300 years ago, it was integrated into the Kingdom of Denmark ...

Here are five things to know about Greenland: Inhabited by Inuits on and off for almost 4,500 years ... surface is covered by ice. Colonised by Denmark 300 years ago, it was integrated into ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should ... found fluctuations in Earth's orbit caused Northern Hemisphere ice sheets to expand and retract in ...