The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...

Coloe Fossae was shaped by powerful tectonics, which stretched and cracked Mars's crust, causing chunks of ground to collapse ...

In the 19th century, scientists could see landscape signs suggesting glaciers were larger in the past, but they settled on tectonic uplift as an explanation.

Traveling up from the Mars equator toward its north pole, we find Coloe Fossae: a set of intriguing scratches within a region ...

Angela Fitzgerald explores Interstate Park's Ice Age geology and 125-year history. Shaped by Ice Age glaciers, Interstate Park is Wisconsin's oldest state park. Angela speaks with property supervisor ...

MISSOULA - Good news this week for promoters of a proposed Ice Age Floods National Geologic Route that would wind through four Northwest states. The U.S. House unanimously approved legislation ...

A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica. A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by ...

Glaciers that still exist on the surface of Mars are helping to tell the story of its past. The red planet experienced between six and 20 separate ice ages during the past 300 to 800 million years, a ...

A new study finds a trigger for the Little Ice Age that cooled Europe from the 1300s through mid-1800s, and supports surprising model results suggesting that under the right conditions sudden climate ...