Ice core records stretching back hundreds of thousands of years show that airborne mineral dust, not carbon dioxide alone, played a leading role in driving some of the most dramatic climate shifts in ...
The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...
A new study focuses on krypton gas in the hopes of understanding how ancient coastlines and landscapes change in Earth’s past ...
From freshwater providers to cultural touchstones, a look at the many changing identities of glaciers.
Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.
The first Americans came over during the last ice age, but how much do you know about them?