suggesting that massive glaciers once covered the entire planet, including regions near the equator. The groundbreaking study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

At the period in question, the region was part of Laurentia, a supercontinent located near the equator. These findings lend substantial weight to the idea that glaciers once spanned the entire ...

Scientists have predicted glaciers would melt, or retreat, as temperatures warm in the tropics—those regions bordering the Earth’s equator. But the study’s analysis of rock samples adjacent to four ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

The white cap of Kilimanjaro has towered over the African plains for untold ages but its glaciers are under threat from climate change. “When the world first started taking climate change ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of a modern glacier near Mars ' equator, raising the possibility that ice may still exist at shallow depths in the area. The possibility of ice on Mars could ...