Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Brown’s Lake Bog, located near Shreve in Wayne County, is maintained by the Nature Conservancy. A seven-acre lake covered by a floating mat of sphagnum moss, it is the home of 20 rare plants including ...

A team at the University of Arizona has proposed a mechanism that not only explains the rapid ice growth during the last glacial period but could also apply to earlier cycles. The study ...

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

Located within parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, Yellowstone National Park truly deserves the honor of being designated America’s (and the world’s) first national park. Within it’s 2.2 million ...

CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

Following the last glacial period, the Sahara transformed into a savanna with trees, lakes, and rivers. Evidence from these ...

“If we look specifically at head hair, we can see that it is styled,” Berman wrote. “The most famous Venus figurine, the ...