Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

In “Homage to Catalonia”, his book about the Spanish civil war, George Orwell wrote about turning up in Barcelona and sensing revolution everywhere. Arriving in Minneapolis in mid-January, ten days ...

ICE agents present positively paleolithic images. Heavily armed. Masked. In unmarked cars. They hunt in packs. They strike and move on. They don’t hesitate to use force. The news is full of doors ...

In Theaters: Ice Age 4: Continental Drift In 2002, Twentieth Century Fox brought us the unlikely team of a mastodon, sloth and sabertooth tiger attempting to return a lost human cub to his herd. In ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly rhinoceros flesh. Moments later, its underground den collapsed, killing the pup and its ...

Eight years ago, I wrote an article for Slate arguing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was an out-of-control agency that had become a “sinister” and “draconian” force “harassing and detaining ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

It has been four years since the former Glacier Ice Arena reopened as the River City Sportplex. In that time the building has been given a face lift, new hockey teams have been brought in, the arena ...

Recent scientific discoveries have sparked a compelling question: Is Earth on the brink of entering another ice age? Latest on Rob Reiner's death – What we know as investigation continues Opinion: How ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...