See also how these coasts looked 20,000 years ago at the height of the Ice Age, when seas were 400 feet lower than today, as well as how they would appear if the much larger East Antarctic Ice ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

Remarkable time-lapse footage reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets ... funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...

Remarkable time-lapse footage reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets ... funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

For good measure, Haxby also threw in sea levels 400 feet lower than they are today, showing how coastlines would have looked 20,000 years ago at the height of the Ice Age.—Peter Tyson Click on ...

The Ocean Drilling Program was featured in NOVA's "Cracking the Ice Age." Log on to this site maintained by the Texas A&M University's Oceanography Department and find out the latest research and ...

For example, as the Ice Age progressed, scientists believe the amount of natural carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped over thousands of years, reducing the greenhouse effect, and making the ...

The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths and other big game with spear points not unlike this one. To make the point ...

Follow a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age ... NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS ...