Hidden among the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania lies a natural wonderland that feels like stepping into another world entirely. McConnells Mill State Park in Portersville offers visitors a ...

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

Paul Kennard knew Mount Rainier was in trouble when its most-visited tourist attraction melted. “I think the real warning ...

The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive ...

A team at the University of Arizona has proposed a mechanism that not only explains the rapid ice growth during the last glacial period but could also apply to earlier cycles. Why Ice Sheets Grew ...

The team overcame dating difficulties by analyzing the shape of the climate record over time. The authors identified a reproducible pattern for each glaciation over the past 900,000 years. In the ...

Our next ice age is due in 10,000 years, but there's a catch Fred Schwaller 03/03/2025 Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun.

The team compared the changes in orbital parameters to the glacial periods over the last 900,000 years. Eccentricity varies over 100,000-year cycles (and a second one over 400,000 years).

PROSPECTS OF ANOTHER GLACIAL PERIOD; Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again. Share full article Feb. 24, 1895 The New York Times Archives ...

The shape of Europe and North America, or the boundaries of the sea and land, departed so widely in the glacial period from those now established, that we cannot suppose the Gulf-stream to have ...