Over half of the world’s glaciers could vanish by 2100, impacting sea levels, water supplies, and climate stability.

Geologists learned of the existence of recent ice ages by finding the legacy of glaciers much further from the poles or high ...

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...

While they are long gone, evidence of the glaciers can still be found on the southern slope of Maunakea volcano, the tallest mountain on earth. The Ice Age Natural Area Reserve was designated in ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

“That tells us there was never any significant prior exposure to cosmic radiation since these glaciers formed during the last ice age.” Twenty years ago, researchers at the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru, ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the ice age advance began to melt, glacial deposits or drift were left behind. These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly ...

See that U-shaped valley? That’s Lairig Ghru. It was carved out by a glacier, a huge river of ice, during the ice age - just like corries and other glacial features. As glaciers move downhill ...

What happens when we go from an ice age to a warm period like we're in now?" he said. As climate change warms the glaciers and ice caps around the world, more microbes captured in the ice ...