Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The Ice Age was a hard period in Earth's history, but ancient humans were quite the hardy bunch. They managed survive and even thrive; here's how they did it.

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Why did the ice ages that once transformed Earth every 40,000 years begin to occur less frequently? The planet now plunges into a deep freeze about once every 100,000 years, a pattern it has ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...