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 ...

A little-known volcano in the remote Kuril Islands, Zavaritzki, links an explosion in 1831 with drastic climate changes.

"The important implication here is that the Earth's natural climate regulation mechanism appears to favour a warm and high-CO 2 world with no ice caps, not the partially glaciated and low-CO 2 ...

For many, the sight of vast ice caps at Earth’s poles seems like an unshakable feature of our planet. Yet, a new study ...

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A ...

Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Hail will finally get the attention it deserves this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is one of the largest on Earth, but it lies beneath several miles of ice. Lake Vostok is a ... Vostok since 1957, they had no idea the lake existed until the 1960s ...

Yellowjackets' co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco breaks down Season 3, Episode 3's hallucination sequence, Jackie's return, and ...

Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation ... may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.