However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

Since satellites began tracking it, Arctic sea ice's winter peak has shrunk by an area about the size of Pakistan. Arctic sea ice had its weakest winter buildup since record-keeping began 47 years ...

Preliminary results suggest this year’s maximum extent of sea ice cover is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) at the University of Boulder ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

The 2024-2025 Great Lakes ice season has seen near-normal ice cover, a change from recent years with record lows. Ice cover peaked in February at just over 50% due to a polar vortex. Climate ...

Sunny weather and temperatures as high as 18C have been felt in parts of the UK over recent days, making it hotter than Barcelona and the Costa Del Sol. But a yellow weather warning for ice is in ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away its ubiquitous cover of ... end of the last ice age.

A yellow weather warning for ice has been issued for parts of Britain ... following on from showers on Wednesday. It covers areas in the north of England, including parts of Manchester, as ...

The Otter Valley Ice Cream & Field Kitchen, founded by the Bond family, was honoured in front of industry peers in a ceremony celebrating the UK’s finest ice cream makers. The award, originally ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...