Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Scientists found that sea levels rose rapidly 11,700 years ago due to melting ice sheets and sudden lake drainage.

By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

Research Reveals How Earth Got Its Ice Caps Feb ... What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12, 2025 — Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according ...

But there are many more fascinating facts about this frosty time in Earth's past. How much do you know about the last ice age? Find out by taking this quiz. And if you need a hint, hit the yellow ...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...

"The prediction is that the next ice age will begin within ... when ice sheets retreat toward the poles. Earth is currently in an interglacial period, with the last glacial period having peaked ...

The researchers unearthed 427 artefacts, including stone tools and the first ochre pieces- the red-coloured rock used in ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during ... orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict that the next ice age will take place 10,000 ...