Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

New research indicates Dargan Shelter was occupied as early as the last Ice Age and repeatedly visited during this cold period.

"Its deep, undisturbed waters have acted like a natural time capsule, trapping layers of sediment year after year, each ...

In a nutshell A mammoth ivory boomerang discovered in a Polish cave is likely between 42,290 and 39,280 years old, making it ...

Deep in the Blue Mountains, archaeologists uncover artefacts that reveal secrets of the nation's Ice Age past.

The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometres tall covered much of Europe ...

MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that dotted the planet's icy surface ... Polar plunge "Snowball Earth" is the colloquial term for periods of time in Earth history ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...

A Times analysis found that 69% of those arrested during that period had no criminal conviction and 58% had never been ...

Alex Delvecchio died Tuesday, July 1, surrounded by his family at age 93, the Detroit Red Wings announced Tuesday.

Earth's current climate is considered an "icehouse climate" due to the existence of polar ice caps. This is important because previous icehouse ...