For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

the massive expanse covering North America during the last Ice Age, which ended about 10,000 years ago. A team of scientists found that small spikes in the temperature of the ocean -- not the air ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help ...

Global sea level rose quickly following the last ice age. This was as a result of global warming and the melting of enormous ice caps that covered North America and Europe. Until now, the rate and ...

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

The Gulf Stream slowed dramatically at the end of the last ice ... the North Atlantic to Europe. The heat it carries maintains temperate conditions in Europe and to some extent North America.

The last known living pair were killed in 1844 in Iceland. Watch Ice Bridge on The Nature of Things to learn more about ice age North America and a hypothesis that could change the story of human ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age ... research team found that an initially modest melting of ice over North America set off a global cascade of ice loss extending ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread ... With summers warmed by the North Atlantic Current, the area should have resisted ...