Even more striking? If these patterns hold true, the next ice age could arrive within 11,000 years. For decades, scientists have suspected that Earth’s changing orbit plays a crucial role in ...

Earth Day environmental activists defaced Lower ... Santiago/Getty Images) The 7,100-pound bull, meant to symbolize Wall Street’s strength, was installed in 1989 and has for decades been ...

29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy unleashed a 14-foot (4 meters) wall of seawater into ... amount of solar radiation reaching Earth. During cold (glacial) cycles, ice sheets sprawled across Antarctica ...

Changes in Earth's tilt relative to the sun have governed the movements of giant ice sheets over the past 800,000 years, triggering the start and end of eight ice ages, new research suggests.

Sea ice reduction happens when more sea ice melts during the summer compared to what freezes during the winter. Last year was Earth's warmest year on record. The Global Carbon Project found that ...

1976, Berger & Loutre 1991). Because the major changes in Earth's ice masses occurred in the Northern Hemisphere where much of the Earth's land surface presently resides, it is hypothesized that ...

The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22 ...

By Austyn Gaffney Earth is missing a lot of sea ice this year. Enough to cover the entire United States east of the Mississippi. That was announced by researchers at NASA and the National Snow and ...