How far off is the next ice age?
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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Global warming is heating the Arctic at a rapid pace - with impacts that could range from the disappearance of polar bears&#39; summer habitat by the century&#39;s end to a damaging rise in sea levels worldwide.
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This week: Arctic sea ice may be gone in summer by 2040, no-pain disorder decoded, mammal may have glided before birds, wild new species discovered, and more.
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For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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The Arctic may be free of all summer ice by as early as 2040, new data from scientists suggests.
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Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth's climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole.
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
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The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean this year shrank more than one million square miles below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.
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PROVIDENCE, RI - Scientists believe a 50-million-year record of the Earth&#39;s climate lies in an underwater mountain chain in the ice-clogged waters near the North Pole.
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Nov 1 (OneWorld) ï¿½ With only eight weeks left before the elves finish their work and Santa Claus mounts his sleigh, an eight-nation study on global warming co-sponsored by the United States has concluded that the North Pole is melting
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Very long icicles Deep ice cores from Antarctica reveal there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any time in the last 800,000 years.â¦
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BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 9 (IPS) - Climate change will soon make the Arctic regions of  the world nearly unrecognisable, dramatically disrupting  traditional Inuit and other northern native peoples' way of  life, according to a new report that has yet to be publicly  released.
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Global warming is causing the Arctic ice-cap to melt at such an unprecedented rate that by the summer of 2070 it may have no ice at all, according to the most comprehensive study carried out on global climate change in the region.
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A chart of temperature variation over 1,000 years dubbed the "hockey stick" has entered into the folklore of climate scientists, but how accurate is it?
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.