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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are uncertain whether the warming climate is to blame for the extinction at the end of the last ice age. At the time, modern humans were rapidly spreading around the globe and some ...

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 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).

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 ...

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 ...