By around 7,000 years ago, the polar ice caps melted to about their modern-day size and the sea level rose accordingly, flooding the blue hole caves in the Bahamas and elsewhere with saltwater.

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research. The cool ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

The polar ice caps not only keep the Earth cool ... spilling dams, or dripping cave stalactites, as depicted in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Demonstrating a visual of how this global warming impact ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...