Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ice, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maclure Glacier in Yosemite National Park. Scientists recently discovered that California's glaciers are thousands of years older ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

California may be known as the Golden State, with its shimmering beaches and warm Mediterranean climate. But clinging to the rooftop of the High Sierra are the last remnants of glaciers that have ...

(CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of ...

Scientists who studied the last scrapes of ice-age glaciers around the world have concluded that most of Earth thawed out simultaneously at the end of the last Big Chill about 17,500 years ago.

New geological analysis of river sands near Stonehenge has debunked the long-held theory that Ice Age glaciers transported the monument's massive stones. Scientists found no evidence of distant rocks ...