The study, published in Science Advances on February 14, 2025, explains that the presence of ice caps is not a permanent or natural state for Earth. Instead, it results from multiple climate ...

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. A team of ...