An international research team led by the University of Bremen has investigated what influenced the expansion of the ...

A new study, published in the journal Science Advances, demonstrates just how novel the melt is for California’s Sierra ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 centimeter per ...

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

The mighty glaciers of Yosemite National Park and the High Sierra date all the way back to the Ice Age - which has implications for the future.

When Matthias Huss first visited Rhône Glacier in Switzerland 35 years ago, the ice was just a short walk from where his ...

Several of California’s Sierra glaciers that persisted through the Holocene are now on track to vanish within this century.

The Ice Age is often pictured as endless snow, advancing glaciers, and struggling creatures—and it is easy to assume Greece was the same.

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.