This brief cold snap interrupted the warming trend at the end of the last ice age and remains a topic of great interest to climate scientists. This research could have broader implications for how ...

Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation, about 11,500 years ago ... may have ...

Prehistoric people occupied the site toward the end of the last ice age, and temperatures would have been 5 to 7 degrees Celsius colder than they are today, Pelton said. To survive such low ...

During the end of the last Ice Age, caribou are known to have similarly migrated along a still-frigid land bridge that is now submerged beneath Lake Huron.(Paul Nicklen/National Geographic ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Working at temperatures of -35C, a team of scientists extracted a 2.8km-long cyclinder, or core, of ice - longer than eight Eiffel Towers end-to-end ... had a "nail-biting last few days" as ...