The Great Infra-Cambrian Ice Age There is considerable geological evidence for an extensive glaciation some 600 million years ago. Its end caused an alteration of climate that made possible the ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

who is now giving a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute on "Selected Chapters in Physiography," will deliver three lectures on "The Alps in the Great Ice Age" at special meetings of the ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has experienced numerous times. These periods are marked by significant drops in ...

Only a few thousand years ago, the planet's geography was drastically different than it is today. Massive ice sheets stored atop the poles lowered sea levels and exposed a number of interesting and ...

Prey in the ice age was plentiful; horses, deer, and camels roamed the land in great numbers. When a giant fossilized claw was discovered in West Virginia in the late 1700s, there was great ...

Join Steve Backshall on a journey into the past, using stunning location filming from around the world and breath-taking Virtual Production to unravel the secrets of the Ice Age and how it created the ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...