Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up -- with a little help ...

The underbelly of massive "tabular" icebergs that dragged across the North Sea seabed between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago ...

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally offer answers. A team at the University of Arizona has ...

According to a report in Science, researchers have determined that water on land, which includes soil moisture levels, underground aquifers, lakes, rivers and other water-holding surfaces, has been ...

Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12, 2025 — Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates ...