Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

The Ice Age was one of the harshest periods in human history. Food was scarce, predators were everywhere, and the climate was unforgiving. Yet humans not only survived, they spread across the world.

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, happened around 15,200 years ago—nearly 500 years earlier than previous ...