Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago.

Grab some wood from the corner store, set it up in your backyard fire pit, and strike a match. But how did our Ice Age ...

Theories include poor management, pressure from Germanic people, the rise of Christianity, overpopulation, worsening defenses—and even the unfortunate timing of a brief ice ... age and composition of ...

intense cold periods, like the Younger Dryas. 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.

New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

Albert Edwards of Societe Generale famously coined the phrase “Ice Age” for the period leading up to and after the GFC. The ...

Previous analysis indicates that Earth endured a roughly 200–300 year long ice age starting ... Little Ice Age. According to Gernon, this timing also lines up with a known period of ice-rafting ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

The exhibition will present work by people living in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age, between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago. At this time ... complex patterns. The period saw the rise of ...