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

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

Researchers have long wondered about the mysterious flat patches they found on the teeth of Ice Age Europeans. These dental ...

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 ...

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

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

An international research team including the University of Göttingen has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late ...

Jan. 2, 2025 — A new study investigating ancient methane ... patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation ...

It is often referred to as "the last ice age" and is best known for hosting now-extinct megafauna, such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), giant ground sloths and saber-toothed cats.

New images from the North Sea show never-before ... was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured these landforms in "clear and amazing" detail ...

(The ice age itself began approximately 2.6 million ... Credit: Supplied by Christine Batchelor (Data owner: TGS) The new study, published Dec. 13, 2024 in the journal Science Advances, doesn ...