Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

The story of how the last Ice Age ended is being rewritten from the bottom up, as new records etched into the sea floor ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

Climate change is actually nothing new to our old planet. It has long driven the evolution of Earth's flora and fauna and good thing, too: Without those major shifts, we wouldn't be here today. But as ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last Ice Age.

December 2025 / Kiel. A study by an international team involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water during a major warming phase ...

The cows watched us as we trekked through the tall grass of the Ruataniwha Conservation Park in New Zealand. Tails swished in the warm summer air, and their heads slowly turned in sync to follow our ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Reading time 2 minutes In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland ...

Earth’s weather changes based on where it is in its annual cycle around the Sun – but is it possible the climate can also be affected by the solar system’s position in its orbit around the center of ...

A new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice suggests that global increases in wildfire activity likely occurred during periods of abrupt climate change throughout the last Ice ...