Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk

The early settlement of the Americas is hugely contested area of archaeology.

New findings from the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California suggest human-caused wildfires in the region, along with a warming climate, led to the loss of most of the area’s large mammals.

The last time methane in the air rose so fast, Greenland warmed by 10°C within decades.

Long before thermometers, nature left its own temperature records. A climate scientist explains how ongoing global warming compares with ancient temperatures.

Knowing Greenland’s ice-free history offers a warning for the future as global temperatures rise.

A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.

“This is one of the first times Ice Age effects have been found in a tropical species," says José Avila-Cervantes.

New simulations shed light on what caused ice sheets to grow in northern Europe during the last ice age and how they grew so fast.

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.