The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research. A team of ...

“We now know that the reason we live on an Earth with ice caps—rather than an ice-free planet—is due to a coincidental combination of very low rates of global volcanism and highly dispersed ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

Global sea levels rose more than expected in 2024, Earth's hottest year on record, according to an analysis released Thursday ...

Climate scientists thought stronger atmospheric rivers would accelerate Greenland's ice loss—but it might actually be slowing ...

Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps Feb. 14, 2025 — The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex ...

The world’s seas rose by 0.59cm in 2024, well above the 0.43cm predicted by scientists. Read more at straitstimes.com.

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...