The Museum of Natural History’s Sidney Horenstein noted New York, at least, has risen roughly 150 feet following the retreat of the ice and the loss of its immense weight. The Earth’s crust still ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

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

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks ... 12,000 years since the end of the last ice age. This is why terms like mean sea level aren ...

Diaries written in the 16th century have helped researchers to chronicle famine, flooding and plagues in medieval Romania, shedding light on life during Europe’s Little Ice Age. While glaciers ...

Many people know that Earth has gone through several ice ages in the past. These were long periods when big parts of the ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed, revealing ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration ...

To be a speedskater at his age no longer involves much speed. In compression pants and a skintight race suit, he shuffles and glides down the ice ... but the worst came during his most recent ...

When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

As North America drifted over this hotspot, the lithosphere weakened, enabling glacial forces during the Ice Age to carve the deep depressions of these massive lakes. Seismic data supports this ...