As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

If all the ice blanketing Earth were to disappear, it would bring about a massive disorder on the planet. The melting of ice sheets won’t just trigger a mass extinction event, but a gradual and ...

The vast landmass is melting quickly due to climate change, and may rapidly cause the complete loss of the island's ice.

Because the major changes in Earth's ice masses occurred in the Northern Hemisphere ... Terrestrial ice sheets responded to climate warming rapidly, with no significant lag between initiation ...