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It’s strange to think it but technically speaking we are in the middle of an ice age ... to the cold northern regions of the planet, so more snow fell. And slowly, the northern hemisphere ...

Before that the Ice Ages covered most of the Northern Hemisphere with glaciers. The last of the five major ice ages, called the Pleistocene glaciation, began about 1.5 million years ago.

The results of two summers' field work in Newfoundland show that most of the island was glaciated in the Pleistocene, only the southern part of the Long Range of mountains having escaped ice action.

How has glaciation shaped the landforms of the Northern Hemisphere? videoHow has glaciation shaped the landforms of the Northern Hemisphere? Iain Stewart explains the glaciation of the Northern ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial ... high resolution climate dataset for the past 60,000 years for the northern ...