Marinoan global glaciation lasting 4 million years confirmed; stable ice defies current climate models and biological ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

Evidence has been discovered for one of the earliest human populations yet known in Scotland.

According to researchers, the increase in mass is due to unusual snowfall and does not represent a stabilization of the ...

A team at the University of Arizona has proposed a mechanism that not only explains the rapid ice growth during the last glacial period but could also apply to earlier cycles. The study ...

CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the ...

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

Preserved in the sediments buried beneath the present-day seafloor, these plough-marks date back to the last ice age - a ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...