During the last ice age, the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the climate in the North Atlantic underwent much greater multi-centennial variability than it does in the present warm period.

New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the gradual breakdown of silicate rocks played the leading role in regulating Earth’s ...

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

A new study published last week is giving us a better idea. The research builds on previous hypotheses theorizing that Ice Ages occur on a predictable timeline that relates to the geometry of Earth’s ...

During Earth's ice ages, much of North America and northern Europe were covered in massive glaciers. About 20,000 years ago, those ice sheets began to melt rapidly, and the resulting water had to go ...