A Houma businesswoman has expanded her franchise outside of the parish and soon will open a 20th location. The ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call "snowball Earth", when our planet was entirely encased in ice. This happened when the polar ice caps ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

The Snowball Earth hypothesis has been largely based on evidence from sedimentary rocks exposed in areas that once were along coastlines and shallow seas, as well as climate modeling.Physical evidence ...

Snowball Earth defines periods of our planet's history when ice spanned the globe, even reaching the equator. The planetary-scale freeze is thought to have been driven by ice sheet expansion ...

Scientists found evidence that during Snowball Earth, thick ice sheets covered some tropical regions, suggesting glaciers blanketed Earth's surface.

Chinese artisans are working on the two-story slide that will be involved in a snowball fight scene in 'Ice.' (Dewayne Bevil/Orlando Sentinel) Having a snowball. Now, about those snowballs.

All of which raises questions about what the snowball Earth might have looked like in the continental interiors. A team of US-based geologists think they've found some glacial deposits in the form ...

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call “snowball Earth”, when our planet was entirely encased in ice.This happened when the polar ice caps ...