Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12, 2025 — Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates ...

Lessons from the End of the Last Ice Age Research from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) offers critical insights into how climate-driven plant extinctions unfold. By analyzing ancient plant DNA ...

A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 years’ time. An international team, including researchers from UC Santa Barbara, made their prediction based on a new ...

A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...

More than two-thirds – or 69 percent – of the observed vertical land motion is due to ongoing effects from the last ice age. “This ice age effect is the largest in Maryland, Virginia, and North ...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...

A new study suggests that Earth’s next ice age should begin within the next 11,000 years - except our impact on the planet may delay it, potentially by thousands of years. Scientists have long ...

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly, and the continents achieved their present-day outline. When the temperatures drop, ice sheets spread from the Poles and ...

Known as the Younger Dryas, this partial return to ice-age conditions may have stressed ... the geography of the extinctions. For one thing, both North and South America suffered them.

1) Woolly mammoths didn't die "before" the Ice Age. The Ice Age is about 2 million years old and still going. Yes, we're in an Ice Age right now. 2) Perhaps you meant during the Last Glacial ...

“These results also help us understand megafaunal extinctions at the end of the last Ice Age, indicating humans may have played a more important role than is sometimes thought,” said Ben ...