Global warming may have halted an emerging ice age, study suggests

Two thousand years ago, the Arctic remnants of a once-vast ice sheet started to grow again. It was the beginning of a new ...

How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age's glaciers—and what it could mean for Antarctica today

About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick helped lock in three of the ...

Ancient fish bones reveal how Arctic cod species survived the last ice age

The glacial Arctic Ocean was not a barren ice desert but a breeding ground for the evolution of cold adaptation in marine ...

There’s still ice leftover from the last ice age

The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States ...
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Eye-catching study: It is not too late to avoid a new ice age

Even if the Atlantic’s major ocean current systems were to collapse, they could still be restored, a new report concludes.
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White Sands footprints suggest humans experienced abrupt environmental shifts during the last ice age

Expanded excavations at White Sands National Park in New Mexico have provided researchers an opportunity to refine the age of ...