Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

Two of these periods, around 25,000 and 23,000 years ago, coincide with the Last Glacial Maximum. The Last Glacial Maximum, ...

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may ... the cold and unforgiving most recent glacial maximum. At this time, the mean annual ...

An animation reveals how much of UK was once covered in ice and how ... to plot the extent of the ice sheet during the last glacial maximum. They could then consider the impacts of this in terms ...

PERMAFROST has been shown by many authors to have existed in various parts of England during the last glacial period 1,2. Its full extent and distribution have remained somewhat uncertain but can ...

During the glacial–interglacial cycles of the past half million years, it took well over 50,000 years for continental ice sheets to grow to their maximum extent. In contrast, the transitions ...