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

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

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

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.

New research reveals that the Snowball Earth was not always frozen solid. There were periods where it moved to slushball or ...

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

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

Scientists Pinpoint Earth's Coldest Oceans During Ancient Deep Freeze. Scientists have identified what may be the coldest ocean temperatures ever recorded in Earth's history, shedding new light on how ...

Scientists are on the verge of declaring a new epoch as they gather hard evidence that humanity has permanently altered the planet’s geological record through industrial activity and the detonation of ...

Between 635 and 720 million years ago, the average global temperature did not rise above -50 degrees Celsius. When the planet was completely frozen over, life may have survived in ponds, scientists ...

Paris (AFP) – Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth". Liquid ...