Rare fossils challenge assumptions about how the big cats thrived in a challenging environment.

Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages ...

An international team of scientists has identified fossils of snow leopards for the first time, in a research published in ...

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of significant cooling from the early 14th to mid-19th centuries, which saw mean temperatures across the northern hemisphere drop by up to 2°C and the advancement of ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a ...

Eruptions of subglacial volcanoes may not be visible on the surface, but they can have consequences for the ice sheet. Heat ...

Antarctica's ice sheet was much thicker during the last ice age, and it is possible that the ... Madeline Reinsel is a science writer with a background in environmental science and wildlife ...