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

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

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

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

The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height approximately ... three major cooling steps. At this time a continental-scale temperate ice ...

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

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A study on this time period was recently published in the journal ... environment for the first time since this massive ice age began. They were exposed to rain and other weathering effects ...

Climatologists analyze various natural climate data repositories to understand Earth’s past. Glaciers, sediments, and pollen convene to form a kind of “nature’s archive” from which natural scientists ...

In the shift between ice ages and interglacial periods the atmospheric content of ... the temperature began to rise at the end of the ice age approximately 19,000 years ago, an increase in the ...

“This study showed that the planet experienced these short, sudden episodes of burning, and they happened at the same time as these other big ... spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the ...