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

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

a dry corridor that was exposed by low sea levels as the climate became colder toward the end of the last ice age,” he added. Gilligan compared the Wyoming needles to the world's oldest needles ...

Upon arrival you wrap the ice tightly around the ankle. You have just satisfied the age-old rule of RICE, the recommended treatment for acute injuries for 46 years. RICE stands for rest ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

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 ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...