Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds ...

For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and ...

But a new study has ... Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean Current Mar. 3, 2025 — Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's ...

The last ice age, or glacial period, ended about 11,700 years ago ... Antarctica could be ice-free in 8,000 years, leading to ...

Antarctica's ice sheets are massive amounts of ice, kilometres thick, that sit on the continent's bedrock. As the ice sheets ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when ...

This sudden change in ocean "salinity" has a series of consequences ... North Atlantic began to warm near the end of the Little Ice Age, freshwater disrupted the system, called the Atlantic ...

The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.

CARDIFF - The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless ... focusing on land-based ice sheets across the Northern Hemisphere and deep ocean temperatures. They then ...

They mapped changes in ice sheet volumes using data from fossilized deep-sea organisms ... will likely push back the timing of the next ice age.

Researchers conclude that Adélie penguins took over the Antarctic habits of seals when sea ice started to expand around 1,400 ...