Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

Around 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a climate catastrophe so severe that ice sheets covered the planet from pole ...

Learn about the rapid melting of the last Ice Age and how it led to the era of the 'plumeworld ocean' on Earth.

Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that occurred, and how ...

A new study challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth's ice ages. The research ... our planet's climate history." Recent studies stress the urgency ...

The Earth became almost completely covered in ice during the longest and most severe ice age in the planet's history Layers of rock can be thought of as pages of a history book – with each layer ...

Scientists have identified the world's oldest asteroid crater in Australia, adding it may explain how the planet was lifted from an ice age ... you lose that early Earth history".

From roughly the 14th to the 19th centuries, Britain and the rest of the northern hemisphere were locked in a "Little Ice Age". It is thought ... could reach the Earth. Scientists also wonder ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire ... has been the lack of an age for the rocks to reveal when the right ...