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 ...

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Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

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 glacial period, therefore, might be caused by the divergence of a cold air current, and be limited to the plateau at the base of an upheaved volcano.

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 ...