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

Low atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during glacial periods must have been accompanied by changes in surface-ocean carbonate chemistry. But it is unclear whether concurrent changes in the ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions. During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in ...

Throughout much of Earth's history, the climate has switched between periods of extreme heat and freezing cold. Cold, glacial periods are characterized by large ice sheets in the Northern ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Carbon dating suggests the peat is around 11,000 years old, from the tail-end of the last ice age. Why was the sea level so low at that point? PETER BALSON: During the maximum period of glaciation ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...