If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Previous analysis indicates that Earth endured a roughly 200–300 year long ice age starting around 540 CE ... in which large slabs of ice break off glaciers, drift across the ocean, and ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

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Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded the collapse of the Roman Empire ...

“Nine years in age and a great swathe of ocean once separated Mary Donaldson and Kate Middleton,” we wrote, “but these two women ... now stand at the forefront of regal power in Europe.

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...

which stretched from the British Isles to the Arctic seas during the last ice age. Such land deformation results from glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which describes how Earth’s crust ...