In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and North America, while much of ...

In a nutshell A massive supernova explosion 13,000 years ago may have triggered the Younger Dryas ice age by damaging Earth’s ...

"One of the big questions in my research field right now is why the last ice age ended," Brenda Hall, a glacial geologist and professor of Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine ...

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) are emblematic creatures from the last ice age. | Credit: LEONELLO CALVETTI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Throughout much of Earth's history ...

Archaeologists and First Nations communities uncover 693 Ice Age-era stone artifacts in a high-altitude Blue Mountains cave, ...

It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long ... since at least 23,000 years ago – close to the peak of the last ice age. Hello, curious kids! Do you have a question you’d like ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally offer answers. A team at the University of Arizona has ...

Global warming caused vital Atlantic Ocean currents to collapse just before the last ice age, a new study suggests ... was a relatively warm stage of Earth's history characterized by higher ...

The team found that the changes in the Earth's climate ... began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

In fact, coming out of the last ice age, it took 10,000 years for the Earth’s average temperature to warm 3 degrees C. Astonishingly, humans — due to the burning of fossil fuels and greenhouse ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct ...