23,000-year-old footprints found in New Mexico reveal when first humans came to America: Early settlers arrived during Ice age; evidence rewrites America's origin storyScientific analysis of 23,000-year-old footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has strengthened the case for an unexpectedly ...
07 Jul, 2026, 04.52 PM IST
In 1942, a British forest ranger stumbled upon the skeleton lake in the Himalayas. Here's all you need to know about the mysterious RoopkundUttarakhand's Roopkund Lake, a remote Himalayan glacial site, has baffled experts for decades with the discovery of hundreds of human skele...
02 Jul, 2026, 03.09 PM IST
In 2021, a British geologist dated footprints at New Mexico's White Sands to 21,000+ years old: Pushing humans' arrival in North America back 5,000 yearsExciting discoveries at White Sands National Park challenge what we know about North America's past. Unearthed ancient human footprints, es...
20 Jun, 2026, 05.26 PM IST
Scientists say Stonehenge’s Altar Stone may have been moved by ice, not people, rewriting part of the monument’s storyA new study suggests a glacier may have transported Stonehenge's six-ton Altar Stone from Scotland to Dogger Bank thousands of years ago. H...
14 Jun, 2026, 07.33 PM IST
In 2018, workers building a major English highway uncovered giant Ice Age bones that revealed Britain sits on an ancient mammoth territoryA Cambridgeshire highway project crew unearthed massive Ice Age mammoth bones, revealing a prehistoric landscape. This significant find, un...
22 May, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
A Canadian lake shaped like an emoji suddenly drained dry in a geological event rarely seen on EarthLake Rouge in Quebec catastrophically drained in May 2025 due to a landslide and outburst flood, leaving a barren crater. This rare event w...
18 May, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
Melting Himalayas are waking up 1,700 ancient viruses sleeping for 41,000 yearsResearchers have uncovered nearly 1,700 ancient virus species in the glacial ice of the Himalayas, with about three-quarters previously unk...
04 Sep, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
New ecosystems to emerge from melting glaciers by end of century, study revealsMelting glaciers could lead to the creation of new ecosystems covering an area between the size of Nepal and Finland by the year 2100. The ...
19 Aug, 2023, 10.22 AM IST
How scientists are using drones to lower the risk of catastrophic flooding from large glacial lakesHeavy rainfall and rock, snow or ice avalanches can raise water levels in moraine-dammed glacial lakes, generating waves that overtop the m...
07 Jun, 2021, 01.12 PM IST
View: Yes, glaciers are melting but no need for panicMany readers will be astonished that the contribution of glacial melt can be just under 1% even in the higher Himalayas. The estimates of s...
11 Apr, 2021, 10.54 AM IST
Mars emerging from Ice AgeMars emerging from an Ice Age, according to radar images of Mars's polar regions that are shedding new light on our climate cycle.
28 May, 2016, 07.58 AM IST
Mars emerging from Ice Age: StudyThe findings are based on data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling Mars for 10 years.
27 May, 2016, 03.47 AM IST
Climate change likely to extend for next 10,000 years: StudyRising global temperatures, glacial melting and rising sea levels are the climatic changes that could lead to the submergence of coastal ar...
09 Feb, 2016, 01.08 PM IST
Glaciers in Tibet retreating at alarming rateChina's glaciers particularly those in Tibet have retreated by about 7,600sqkm - nearly 18 per cent - in the last 65 years and even the thi...
23 Apr, 2015, 02.38 PM IST
- Melting glaciers also behind sea-level rise
World's shrinking glaciers contributed to almost a third of the sea-level rise between 2003 and 2009, a new study has found.
18 May, 2013, 06.10 AM IST
- Warming eats up Everest ice by 13% in 50 years
Mount Everest is shedding its frozen cloak as its glaciers have shrunk at an alarming rate of 13% over the last 50 years due to global warm...
15 May, 2013, 03.08 AM IST
Everest losing its snow ice coverResearchers have found that glaciers in the Mount Everest region including the Sagarmatha national park that surrounds the peak, have shrun...
14 May, 2013, 01.10 PM IST