In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

A new study suggests Earth still had seasons and changes in its climate during its ancient Ice Ages. Scientists at the University of Southampton been studying rocks that they say provide evidence of a ...

Explore the concept of 'snowball earth' and recent findings on climate variability during this ancient icy period.

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

To an astronaut today, the Earth looks like a vibrant blue marble from space. But 700 million years ago, it would have looked ...

New geochemical sleuthing has pushed Earth’s climate record into almost unimaginable territory, revealing seawater that once ...