A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 ...

MAINE — The state’s political leaders are responding to federal law enforcement operations that may occur in Maine. Maine’s two largest cities, Portland and Lewiston, are now preparing for operations ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

The proposed project is expected to tell the story of LA’s Ice Age past, when mammoths and dire wolves roamed the landscape.

Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I ...

The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and ...

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

Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

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Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research.