Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the ...

BUTLER, Tenn. (WJHL) — Donald Winters probably broke a world record Tuesday, but the 66-year-old went through several minutes of agony in the process. “The first, oh, three-fourths of it went real ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age, rather than just toward the end of that period, a study published in the ...

Michael Petterson has received funding from a range of sources such as research grants and international aid grants throughout his career. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

A group led by Dartmouth researcher Meredith Kelly is sampling sediment from local bodies of water to learn more about how melting happened during the last Ice Age — in hopes of anticipating the ...

What is an ice age? Do they have to last a certain amount of time to count, how did they vary and how many ice ages has the Earth experienced? As with many definitions of natural phenomena, a precise ...