| 单词 | ice age |
| 例句 | It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last ice age it experienced what geologists call a periglacial climate—a zone at the edge of an ice sheet characterized by frequent freeze-thaw cycles that fractured the rock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like a million ice ages had gone by since he’d left us for whatever adventure was next. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It also survived the first peak of the last ice age, around 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One interesting theory, given our present-day concerns with global warming, is that the ice ages were caused not by falling temperatures but by warming ones. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And here is a thing that most of us fail to appreciate: we are still in an ice age, only now we experience it for just part of the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The giant diprotodon appeared in Australia more than 1.5 million years ago and successfully weathered at least ten previous ice ages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows much of anything about the earth’s many ice ages—why they came, why they stopped, when they may return. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One cannot interrupt galaxy formation, start and stop hurricanes and ice ages, experimentally exterminate grizzly bears in a few national parks, or rerun the course of dinosaur evolution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fierce winters helped drive the Vikings from Greenland and led to bad harvests that exacerbated social tensions in continental Europe, but few would claim that the little ice age caused the Reformation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not unusually severe for an ice age, it had twin peaks, the first about 70,000 years ago and the second at about 20,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z About 18,000 years ago, the last ice age gave way to a period of global warming. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty million years ago, our immediate ancestors probably still lived in the trees, later descending because the forests receded during a major ice age and were replaced by grassy savannahs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last ice age, as glaciers and ice sheets spread down from the Arctic, northern flora all over the world naturally tried to escape southwards. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Mercy, I remember you, Declaration. I haven’t seen you in ice ages! Just look at you! You’ve grown into a beautiful young lady!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There have been at least a dozen ice ages in the last two million years, each lasting about 100,000 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z You don’t need a great deal of bad weather to get an ice age. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He refused to accept Louis Agassiz’s idea of ice ages–"the refrigeration of the globe," as he dismissively termed it–and was confident that mammals "would be found in the oldest fossiliferous beds." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the very peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, 30 percent of the earth was under ice. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z During the last ice age, this was about as far as the ice sheets got. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It turned out Cory knew a lot about the ice age. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Is there any danger of driving the environment of the Earth toward the planetary Hell of Venus or the global ice age of Mars? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ME: You will literally cause the next ice age. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken In Aiken's alternative history of Britain, wolves have fled a new ice age in northern Europe and come to England via the Channel tunnel. Ten of the best wolves in literature 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z “The Day After Tomorrow,” the 2004 film about a new ice age, “compresses the timeline of global warming into a ludicrous framework,” she says, but helps to dramatize an abstract issue. Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “At the end of the ice age, there was suddenly one little flower that came out of the ice, and then there’s life again,” he said. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The ice age painted caves at Lascaux in south-western France were closed in 1963 and a facsimile opened nearby 20 years later. Your last chance to see Tutankhamun's tomb 2011-01-17T20:00:03Z I was sent by the Guardian a few years ago to explore caves in France for a feature on ice age art. The deadly lure of cave paintings 2010-08-11T10:22:00Z The video opens with a sequence revealing a group of boulders that were transported by glaciers to their present locations during the ice age. How Do You Sell a Work of Art Built Into the Earth? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z For example, Louis Agassiz's reliance on scientific evidence for his development of the idea of ice ages helped replace religion as a driver of our understanding of Earth's past. 'The Last Lost World': How the Pleistocene era shaped human development 2012-08-08T19:40:04Z Some plants found here are normally associated with alpine regions: they’re remnants from the cold period after the ice age. Sweden’s High Coast: an uplifting experience 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Here and there, boulders left by the receding glacier during the last ice age stand watch over a landscape as peaceful as it is pristine. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z What do these things tell us about hunter-gatherers in ice age Europe? Dig it: is archaeology the new art? 2013-03-07T16:36:27Z Lower Solva sits at the harbor behind a glacial meltwater channel formed at the end of the ice age, when water gushing down the mountains carved out deep gorges. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z On “Demented Times,” she sings about someone who hasn’t paid the rent, then transitions into a lovely bit about ice ages and darkness. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z If anything, Mr. Silver’s notions of kinship as a curse are more baldly stated than usual, without typical apocalyptic embellishments like cannibalism, an encroaching ice age or the trussing up of fallen angels. | 'The Lyons': ?The Lyons,? by Nicky Silver, at Vineyard Theater - Review 2011-10-12T02:05:01Z The water had percolated underground during the last ice age, when Arabia was wet. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z The already low-lying land actually is sinking — for complex reasons including groundwater loss and a now-deflating bulge in the earth created by ice age glaciers. Welcome to Virginia Beach, home of the East Coast’s fastest-rising sea level 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It is a great baggy monster of a love letter to its author's provincial origins, ranging all the way from ice age Cheshire to the invention of the eccles cake. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z Planet Earth has been ravaged by a second ice age, and the only human survivors live aboard this train. Snowpiercer trailer: off the rails with Bong Joon-ho 2013-07-09T12:30:23Z The ice age was three, four, even five times earlier. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z It’s said that Madeira is the only place in the world with ancient forest dating back to before the ice age; jacaranda trees and fuchsia are common on the island. Madeira Draws a Younger, Hipper Set 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z Their leaves, meanwhile, drew down carbon dioxide from the Devonian atmosphere — enough, evidence suggests, to induce an ice age. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z And apparently, for the most part, we want characters’ ethnicities to be equally simplistic, whether the movie is set in a monster world or an ice age or Madagascar. Riff: How to Read a Racist Book to Your Kids 2012-06-16T04:00:05Z The fountain in La Colonnade will be filled with moraine, granite that was ground to a fine silt by glaciers in the last ice age. Olafur Eliasson Envisions a Spectacle in Versailles 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Only at Creswell Crags have significant works of ice age cave carving been discovered in these islands. The deadly lure of cave paintings 2010-08-11T10:22:00Z An antic ode to human resilience, written as America was entering World War II, it follows the Antrobus family as they face down an ice age, a deluge and a very human catastrophe. ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ Review: A Party for the End of the World 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z As with ice age wonders, when you look at frescoes from Pompeii the pleasure of art makes ancient history immediate. Dig it: is archaeology the new art? 2013-03-07T16:36:27Z It sits on the remains of a glacial moraine: a pile of rocks and debris left behind by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age. Top 10 US mid-Atlantic national and state parks 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Last year SD Crockett depicted an imminent new ice age in After the Snow, in which young Willo needs all Mica's resourcefulness to survive alone in near-future Britain after social collapse. Fiction for teenagers – reviews 2013-03-30T15:30:01Z He likes to say that we may just be in a cycle of relative warming, and that as recently as the 1970s we were being warned of a looming ice age. Jim Inhofe is a small-plane-flying, global-warming-denying senator. And now he’s got a gavel. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Deer and rabbits nibbled grass around a centerpiece of four giant boulders deposited by the last ice age but resembling a modern-art installation. Lopez Island in the fall: Hikes, farm stands and fine dining 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z And, of course, there is that timeworn claim that Gore and the scientific community are predicting an ice age. “An Inconvenient Sequel” is good science with a fuzzy agenda 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z This guy is interested in what he calls the “long game” — so long that his descriptions include the ice age, the rise of the mastodons, the pulling apart of the continental shelf. A Winning Baseball Novel by the Editor of The Paris Review 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The yew tree that's replacing the original, Greenfield said, is of a species that survived the ice age and is far less susceptible to infestation by insects. Post-beetles, a new tree planted in memory of Beatles' George Harrison 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The last time something this big and bloated moved this slowly was during the ice age. 'Immortals': powerful Greek gods in weak tale 2011-11-09T23:42:03Z Once it was thought that the pre-frontal cortex of the ice age brain was unformed for social organisation.' These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z Most of the mammals featured – the smilodon, for instance – were around in the most recent ice age, and they look pretty much as we'd expect them to. A palaeontologist's view on Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012-07-23T17:10:05Z Although I did enjoy it, things got a bit ridiculous when they started talking about dinosaurs – which, of course, weren't around in the ice age at all. A palaeontologist's view on Ice Age: Continental Drift 2012-07-23T17:10:05Z "Ice age" because modern humans began to migrate into Europe about 45,000 years ago, towards the end of the last ice age. Ice age carvings: strange yet familiar 2013-02-16T08:01:02Z Within the epic sweep of history from ice age hunter gatherers to modern suburban householders, Pinker examines both the big picture and the fine detail, with surprises on every page. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z Thus an ice age tree is thought to preserve its seeds under a “mother tree,” waiting for “the next climatic change.” A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Like the boas and the hutias, the iguanas tell tales of evolution, which occurred as tectonic plates crashed and split, ice ages came and went, and sea levels rose and fell. An unlikely wildlife haven on controversial Guantanamo Bay 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z In other words, the end of the ice age was almost instantaneous – and so was the manner in which we exploited it. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The glaciers of the last ice age spared this region, and thus spared it the drift — the silt, the boulders, the assorted debris — common throughout much of the northern hemisphere. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “The Hudson Bight” 2018, is an augmented seafloor map of the Hudson Canyon, a submarine canyon that was created by the glacial change at the end of the last ice age. Maya Lin Captures the Hudson’s Beauty and Power 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Temperatures in Britain plunged back to their ice age levels and the country was once again completely depopulated. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z It is good to see him joining the ice age. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z At the end of the last ice age, around 13,000 years ago, retreating glaciers created an inland corridor connecting Siberia to the Americas. Did the First Americans Arrive via Land Bridge? This Geneticist Says No. 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The 20-acre sandstone maze was created some 400 million years ago during the last ice age, purportedly from permafrost and ice wedging, which created large crevices that began as tiny cracks in the soft sandstone. A restless Virginia resident finds sights that evoke the West within driving distance 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z A fresh ice age would pose a serious threat to a human population now grown into the billions. Humans may notice a chill in the air 2012-09-29T23:05:01Z In the worst-case scenario, we could even find ourselves enduring the same wild weather that plagued times past, swinging between ice ages and warm periods. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z In other words, what is so surprising about the idea that Homo sapiens started to apply these skills immediately on discovering the caves of ice age Europe? The origin of artists: why humans should take credit for inventing art 2012-06-25T12:28:50Z At the peak of the last ice age, just 20,000 years ago, vast ice sheets descended over the northern parts of Europe and North America. Humans may notice a chill in the air 2012-09-29T23:05:01Z Here, wild horses roam a rugged landscape carved by retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age. Top 10 national and state parks in Oregon 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Is it even possible to save humanity from an ice age with a train, given that most train services are cancelled whenever it gets a bit too cold? Snowpiercer trailer: off the rails with Bong Joon-ho 2013-07-09T12:30:23Z Kate Anderson, a spokeswoman for the tribe, said that the mineral spring is at least 12,000 years old, dating to the ice age. Desert dust-up over demolition of tribe's Spa Resort in Palm Springs 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z One such is this week's British Museum exhibition of ice age art. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z For example, it is plausible that we could instead tip the planet into an ice age. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z The fossil record indicates that still more massive, ancient volcanic eruptions might have dimmed the sun for years, causing ice ages and great extinctions. What I remember about the dust 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z It is one of only three places that did not freeze in the last ice age, they say. Next Stop: Peace, Love and Views in Turkey?s Kabak Valley 2010-06-24T18:18:00Z For the past 12,000 years, since the last great ice age, we have lived in the relatively calm climate of the geologic period we call the Holocene. Earth has entered a new era, new Smithsonian book says. That is not a good thing. 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Two thousand years after the ice age ended, Europe was plunged into a new, catastrophic freeze. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z The oldest known portrait of a woman, sculpted from mammoth ivory during the last ice age around 26,000 years ago. Ice age art at the British Museum was crafted by 'professional' artists 2013-01-24T15:02:19Z Temperatures have plummeted, rather than risen: a new ice age is on the way, and the only salvation lies in journeying to Africa. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z Recent research showed, to everyone’s surprise, that this actually happened at the end of the last ice age, but the people of the area have always known it, which is extremely romantic. 'It is fantastic, better than travelling to the moon' – David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Forget about the wonders of the ice age: as the Wombles of Wimbledon Common celebrate their 40th birthday, these are the questions that need answering. The Wombles at 40 – why we need them more than ever 2013-02-05T18:08:18Z The end of the ice age saw a massive global extinction: many large mammals fell prey to changing climate and the effect of some rather formidable hunters sharing their landscape. Alice Roberts: Rudolph and our early ancestors – a love story 2012-12-23T00:05:20Z Pollen records show the same thing happening to plants: many types of tree simply became extinct in northern Europe in the run-up to the peak of the last ice age. Humans may notice a chill in the air 2012-09-29T23:05:01Z It opens a door into the ice age: how the world looked, how human beings looked, how they saw that world. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z The craters marked on maps of this area were created by the scouring waters of the ice age Floods. Smell of sage lures hikers, bikers to E. Washington in March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z We call these periods ice ages or glacial periods. Europe was not covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z During the last ice age, the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the climate in the North Atlantic underwent much greater multi-centennial variability than it does in the present warm period. How a climate model can illustrate and explain ice-age climate variability 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The economic crash of 1929 descended on America like an ice age, ending a meretricious prosperity. Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Global scale relationships between temperature and the isotopic composition of certain environmental waters, like seawater and glacial ice, have long been recognized as the planet moves in and out of ice age cycles. Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z They also traced the region’s ecological history, including how ecosystems responded to warming and cooling cycles since the last ice age some 21,000 years ago. In Peru, a 20-year study charted Amazon forests—and revealed how warming has changed them 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The team utilised speleothems as invaluable records to investigate the cause of rapid, short-term climate changes that occurred during ice ages. El Niño's changing patterns: Human influence on natural variability 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z At the end of the last ice age, the Miyake event would likely have gone unnoticed, except perhaps as shockingly bright auroras that dipped much closer to the equator than normal. Traces of Oldest and Largest Solar Storm Found in Buried French Forest 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z They adjusted the calculation based on factors such as when different lifeforms evolved and how ice ages dampened the activity of those organisms. New calculations say there are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z They found more cobalt in sediments from the past ice ages, compared to more recent sediments. Large swings in past ocean oxygen revealed 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s the oldest direct evidence of Neanderthals hunting cave lions, big cats that once dominated ice age Europe and went extinct 13,000 years ago. Neanderthals hunted—and revered—cave lions 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Despite its high northern latitude, southeastern Alaska displayed a climate pattern reminiscent of the equatorial Pacific during the end of the last ice age and the Holocene period. El Niño's changing patterns: Human influence on natural variability 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z When the last ice age ended thousands of years ago, the rate of global warming — which was roughly 10 times slower than what we see today — was rapid enough to wipe out entire species. Opinion: What Gov. Gavin Newsom could learn from China's response to climate change 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The first woman president of Hungary traveled to Utah to warn Americans of the “demographic ice age” threatening the West. "A demographic ice age": Why the right is freaking out about people having babies 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Fossilized human footprints found in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park were almost certainly made more than 20,000 years ago, during the height of the last ice age, according to new research. Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More than 20,000 Years Ago 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z By the time the last ice age ended 11,000 years ago, the remaining survivors were relegated to China. Ginkgo trees nearly went extinct. Here’s how we saved these ‘living fossils.’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z This so-called uplift and subsidence was only partially caused by natural variables, such as the earth in that region sinking back down after the last ice age. The landscape in New York City is sinking, accelerating risk of sea level rise and flooding: study 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The seismic mayhem in 923-924 A.D. appears to be the most intense episode since the end of the last ice age 16,000 years ago, the researchers report. New earthquake study: 'The big one,' but make it double? 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z King County has likely had glaciers, on these same peaks, since after the last ice age — which ended some 14,000 years ago. End of an epoch? King County may be down to its last glacier 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Famously host to a statue of mammoths succumbing to the tar, the La Brea Tar Pits are an ice age fossil site in the middle of Los Angeles. Just two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have survived 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Similar scenes played out across North America as the world transitioned out of the periodic ice ages of the Pleistocene and into the warmer Holocene. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of years ago, before the last ice age ended, vast herds of saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, American camels and other fantastic beasts roamed Southern California. Wildfires once fueled extinctions in Southern California. Will it happen again? 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Takakia, as the genus is known by scientists, has lived through ice ages and mass extinctions, and endured age after age of natural warming and cooling. The World’s Oldest Moss Outlived the Dinosaurs, but It May Not Survive Climate Change 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The last time we were between ice ages, which was about 125,000 years ago, the ice sheet would've been far less extensive. Will glaciers go "extinct" in our lifetime? Here's what a future without polar ice would look like 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z And before the Holocene started there was an ice age, so it would be logical to even say this is the warmest record for 120,000 years, he said. European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record by far. 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z “The difference at the end of the last ice age,” Lindsey says, “is humans are here.” Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Unlike today’s warming, which is largely driven by greenhouse gases generated by human activity, this long warming phase was a natural phenomenon, one of several climate oscillations in the late ice age. Wildfires once fueled extinctions in Southern California. Will it happen again? 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z When we typically think of an ice age, the first thing that comes to mind is often prehistoric humans hunting wooly mammoths or battling saber-toothed tigers. What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The second process, and more relevant to the Kalaloch bluffs: the thawing of the last ice age. Erosion forces Olympic National Park to take a hard look at Kalaloch Lodge 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z They propose we have moved from the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age to the Anthropocene Epoch. Scientists now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Then the ice age had one last gasp, a 1000-year cold spell known as the Younger Dryas, before the climate warmed again about 10,000 years ago and settled into conditions similar to today’s. Raging wildfires may have doomed California’s ancient megamammals, tar pit fossils reveal 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The starkest difference between then and now is that today, all of the factors that led to the extinction of the ice age mammals are bigger, faster or stronger. Wildfires once fueled extinctions in Southern California. Will it happen again? 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Technically, an ice age is a prolonged period of colder climates when polar and mountain ice sheets are unusually extensive across the earth's surface and on geological timescales, they happen regularly. What climate change deniers get totally wrong about the Little Ice Age 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Others are much deeper and hold water that has been in place for thousands of years, perhaps left there by glaciers during the last ice age. Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z We only know what the forests looked like over the past 150 years, not what they’ve looked like over their 12,000-year evolution since the last ice age. Forest 'thinning,' aka logging, is not going to save us from wildfires | Op-Ed 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z It is the standout feature on Beverly’s Shore Drive, a nondescript row of homes set against the stunning backdrop of Sentinel Gap, where the Columbia River carved through Saddle Mountain during ice age floods. This tiny WA house along the Columbia River is out of this world 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Mastodons went extinct across North America at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Woman finds mastodon molar on California beach 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Hidden beneath the states’ tobacco farms are fossilized beaches that mark shorelines left during the warm periods between past ice ages, when sea levels were higher than today. Major U.S. geological survey aims to uncover minerals critical for batteries and microchips 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z There could be many more—small, large, refreshed by groundwater or isolated by ice ages. Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z "Local journalists described the current situation as the ice age and unfortunately the ice age is going to get colder," he told BBC World Service's Newshour programme. Macau facing increased restrictions under expanded security law 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The real concern is avoiding tipping points – those extreme events from which humanity couldn't recover, from sea level rises far in excess of current projections to a new ice age. We abandoned nuclear power. Now, Earth is paying the price 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z During an ice age, humans traveled overland on the Bering Land Bridge, a chunk of land that used to connect eastern Russia to Alaska, and arrived in the Americas. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Late in the Cenozoic, further extinctions followed by speciation occurred during ice ages that covered high latitudes with ice and then retreated, leaving new open spaces for colonization. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z During past ice ages, giant ice sheets and glaciers grew, soaking up large volumes of ocean water. Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z For much of their existence, however, Earth’s early peoples lived in an ice age, when temperatures were colder and ice covered areas that are now forested or farmed. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Vernal Pools are safe havens for creatures like the fairy shrimp, who have lived through the end of the dinosaurs, the breakup of Pangea, and multiple ice ages, but humans are paving them over. These Mini-Ecosystems Existed Underfoot of Dinosaurs, but Our Parking Lots Might Pave Them to Extinction 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z They were physically larger and stronger than Homo sapiens sapiens and were able to survive in colder conditions, which was a key asset during the long ice age that began around 100,000 years ago. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z These fossils from South Australia date back 650 million years, actually placing the putative animal before the great ice age extinction event that marked the transition between the Cryogenian period and the Ediacaran period. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z During the last ice age, roughly between 12,000 and 20,000 years ago, rain falling on these areas could have percolated down into the subsurface, just as it does onshore today. Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z These are often called ice ages, and each has included multiple glaciation periods during which glaciers grew on the land. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “You’re talking about one of the last surviving relics of the last ice age for the salamanders mountain lineage,” said J.D. Virginia tries to save salamander with lineage dating back to ice age 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The Statz family farm is in the Driftless Area, a fertile, rolling swath of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa untouched by ice age glaciers and the rocky “drift” they left as they retreated. A Death in Dairyland Spurs a Fight Against a Silent Killer 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The rapid bursts of glacier retreat happened thousands of years ago, when the last ice age was drawing to a close and much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered in ice. Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected, Study Finds 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Geologists know the dark shale layer came from the Marinoan, but precisely when it formed within the ice age is unclear. Life may have survived far north of equator during ‘Snowball Earth’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z A few factors can trigger an ice age, but generally such climate changes occur when insufficient sunlight is able to reach the planet’s surface. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z When the ancestors of Native Americans entered North America toward the end of the last ice age, more than 14,000 years ago, they would have encountered herds of wild horses. Horse nations: Animal began transforming Native American life startlingly early 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Obsidian is among the most prized tool stones in the world, and this particular deposit, nearly 100 feet thick, is exceptional because of its continual use by Indigenous people since the last ice age. Obsidian Cliff: Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z A growing number of scientists say this should follow the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago, after the last major ice age. Will Steffen, scientist who fought climate denialism, dies at 75 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z It is home to descendants of trees that appeared at the end of the last ice age in Scotland about 11,000 years ago. Scotland's ancient Caledonian pinewoods could vanish - study 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z However, it’s likely not a coincidence that the earliest known adoptions of agriculture occurred not long after the end of the last ice age, about twelve thousand years ago. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The researchers looked for traces of DNA hailing from the horses that had lived in the Americas in the ice age or right after. Horse nations: Animal began transforming Native American life startlingly early 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z And it’s looking more like an ice age. Crypto is back — in Davos, at least — as redemption tour rolls on 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Exxon's researchers also rejected the prospect of an impending ice age, a notion that was popular in news headlines in the 1970s, though not backed by many scientists. Exxon’s models predicting climate change were spot on — 40 years ago 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The Exxon scientists concluded this warming trend would render the Earth hotter than at any time in at least 150,000 years, debunking unfounded theories of “global cooling” and a forthcoming ice age. ExxonMobil, once a loud climate skeptic, had accurately forecast global warming 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Human migration to which area was made possible by lower sea levels during the last ice age? World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Their scientists also correctly rejected the theory that an ice age was coming at a time when other researchers were still debating the prospect. ExxonMobil: Oil giant predicted climate change in 1970s - scientists 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z JPL calculates the comet has not been this close to Earth for 50,000 years, which was in the middle of the last ice age. Newly discovered comet may be visible to naked eye this month 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The planet has been gradually losing glacial ice since the peak of the last major ice age, some 20,000 years ago. Half of Earth’s glaciers could melt even if key warming goal is met, study says 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z But experts say the ferocity and scale of this downturn could end up leading to more of an ice age. ‘Crypto winter’ has come. And it’s looking more like an ice age. 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z An alternate hypothesis, however, suggests that rapid temperature rise at the end of the last ice age was the primary culprit. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In moving those acorns, jays, certain mammals and probably the extinct passenger pigeon helped oaks regain their northern range after the glaciers of the last ice age displaced them. Check your pace and embrace ‘slow birding,’ a contemplative look at our feathered friends 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z This data suggests that there's no way these islands would be accessible by foot, even if there were a major ice age. Our human ancestors learned to sail half a million years ago, study suggests 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Sixteen thousand years ago, the river sat in an ice-free corridor inside a glacial amphitheater left by the tailend of an ice age. Deadly sharp points found in Idaho could be first American-made tools 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z This time period fell during an era in Earth’s history known as an interglacial period—a relatively warm phase between ice ages. Perfectly Preserved Insects and Plants Point to Warm Greenland Future 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z For example, we now know that because the Earth was in its most recent ice age during this period, areas currently covered by water were then dry land. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z When teaching my undergrad class, I started really looking at how bad ice ages are for planets. The Medea Hypothesis: Does life on Earth sow the seeds of its own extinction? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Our current geologic epoch, the Holocene, began 11,700 years ago with the end of the last big ice age. For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z To start, we need to go back to the beginning of the Holocene, an epoch marked by the end of the last major ice age around 12,000 years ago. How the evolution of domestic cats traces the history of colonization 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z The onset of the ice ages—the Pleistocene Epoch—about 2.5 million years ago helped by keeping the DNA frozen to the present day. Lost world in northern Greenland conjured from DNA in ancient soil 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The ice age of which this glaciation period was a part ended approximately twelve thousand years ago. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z And every time we have ice ages, the amount of life on this planet drops. The Medea Hypothesis: Does life on Earth sow the seeds of its own extinction? 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z During the last ice age, he notes, large lions roamed North America that may have preyed upon these infected—and emboldened—beasts. A parasite makes wolves more likely to become pack leaders 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z For much of human evolution, our ancestors were exposed to large climatic fluctuations between ice ages and intermittent warmer periods. Population growth, climate change create an ‘Anthropocene engine' that's changing the planet 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z In December 2002, he hit literal paydirt, prying from Siberian soil the genetic remains ice age mammoths, musk ox, and all sorts of plants. Lost world in northern Greenland conjured from DNA in ancient soil 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The early history of Japan probably began as long as fifteen thousand years ago, when the islands are thought to have physically separated from Korea at the end of the last ice age. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z There are no T-Rex bones there, but the museum has more ice age fossils than any other institution in the world. La Brea Tar Pits Begin an Unusual Rebrand 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Now, he has extended his definition of wildlife to the distant past: the great, tusked mammoths and mastodons of the ice age. Booming trade in mammoth ivory may be bad news for elephants 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Everywhere they went, our ancestors reshaped landscapes, first by clearing forests and then through early agricultural practices that emerged in a number of regions starting just as the last ice age ended. Population growth, climate change create an ‘Anthropocene engine' that's changing the planet 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z At the peak of the last major ice age, about 24,000 years ago, the Scottish Highlands were covered in ice 1 kilometer thick, and mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses roamed southern England. Watch an ice sheet melt—and Great Britain and Ireland emerge 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Archaeologists had long thought these cultural shifts reflected people developing new tools and beliefs after the last ice age 18,000 years ago. Oldest British DNA reveals mass immigrations after last ice age 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z And that may have been the cause for the great extinction of the ice age mammals: mastodons, mammoths, dire wolves, saber-toothed cats. La Brea Tar Pits Begin an Unusual Rebrand 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z The pattern is the handiwork of past ice ages, Li and colleagues argue in the 7 September issue of Molecular Ecology. Secrets of Tibet’s hot-spring snakes revealed 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z With only 400,000 births last year, Italy was going through more than a demographic winter, she said: “It’s an ice age.” Giorgia Meloni Could Be the First Woman to Lead Italy. Not All Women Are Happy. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z As it turned out, he had found the skeleton of a mastodon, an elephant-like beast that roamed North America during the last ice age. When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Both caves date to the Paleolithic, a turbulent time that followed the end of the last ice age. Oldest British DNA reveals mass immigrations after last ice age 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z He graduated from high school in 1999 during “the employment ice age” that followed the implosion of the country’s 1980s bubble economy. Abe murder suspect says life destroyed by mother’s religion 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “The thermal springs allowed them to get through the ice ages,” Ruane says. Secrets of Tibet’s hot-spring snakes revealed 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z This computer-generated image shows the frozen areas of the Northern Hemisphere during past ice ages from the vantage point of looking down on the North Pole. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z He added folk legends of being able to walk between lands now separated by sea could be a folk memory stemming from rising sea levels after the last ice age. Map may show evidence of Wales' Atlantis off Ceredigion 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Around 20,000 years ago, at the peak of the most recent ice age, enormous, multi-mile-thick ice sheets covered much of the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s Why Earth Just Had Its Shortest Day on Record 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z During the last 60 years the increase in CO² was an estimated 100 times faster than what the earth experienced during the transition from the last ice age. Dawn of the apocalypse: Existential crisis for our species is right here, right now 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Most of the world's mountain glaciers — remnants of the last ice age — are retreating due to climate change. EXCLUSIVE Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z These ice ages were primarily the result of changes in the tilt of Earth’s rotational axis, produced by the gravitational effects of the other planets. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Forty-one years old and unemployed, Yamagami also belongs to what is known here as "the employment ice age". Shinzo Abe killing: Why a religious group has been put in the spotlight 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Not a lot of temperature change is required to have serious effects in the form of an ice age or a “heat wave.” Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Human societies have adapted to the relatively stable climate we have enjoyed since the last ice age which ended several thousand years ago. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The surge can also help you get an inkling of the force and power of the ancient ice age floods that dramatically altered the upcoming vistas. Washington state’s best prehistoric road trip through time | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Many longer term climate variations, such as the ice ages, are related to changes in the planet’s orbit and axial tilt. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The start of the Quaternary period, the last and current period of the Cenozoic, is marked by the start of our current ice age 2.58 million years ago. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z In the last 2.6 million years of the ice age, there were many times that species had to respond to climate warming and climate cooling. How Climate Change Is Leaving Some Species with ‘Nowhere Left to Go’ 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Blue skies, then the meteor, then the ice age. His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z It was then captured in time, encased in the frozen layer of ground known as permafrost, during the ice age more than 30,000 years ago, said Grant Zazula, a paleontologist for the Yukon Government. Searching for Gold, Miners Discover a Frozen Baby Mammoth 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Apparently the martian climate experiences periodic changes at intervals similar to those between ice ages on Earth. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z This video summarizes ice ages: their characteristics and causes. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Together, Skoglund notes, these events suggest wolves evolved adaptations—perhaps stronger jaws and more sensitive noses—that allowed them to survive the harsh conditions of the ice age. Ancient wolves give clues to origins of dogs 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The research also offers insight into the evolutionary history of gray wolves, providing hints about how the species managed to escape the fate of other, long extinct ice age mammals. A Canine Companion So Nice It (Maybe) Evolved Twice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z When a little ice age began in the thirteenth century, voyaging became very difficult, and support of the Greenland colony was no longer possible. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Consider the giant ice sheets, more than a mile thick, that covered a large part of North America during the last ice age only 14,000 years ago. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z They come from the interglacial period between ice ages where the environment was wetter and warmer. Ipswich mammoth teeth DNA to be sampled 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z This fluid, global population might explain how the species survived the end of the last ice age, the scientists posit. A Canine Companion So Nice It (Maybe) Evolved Twice 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z "Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world," said Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula. Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Activity was low from 1280 to 1340 and there was a little ice age, which was about the time regular contact with North America and between Greenland and Europe stopped. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z A small ice age based on evidence of glacial deposits and associated falling sea levels led to the dramatic mass extinction by the end of the Ordovician, the first one documented in the fossil record. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z His “The Origins of Indian Civilization and Histories of India” aims to trace the trajectory of the entire subcontinent since the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago. Recording India’s Linguistic Riches as Leaders Push Hindi as Nation’s Tongue 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Long ago, the retreat of ice age glaciers carved one of the largest underwater canyons in the world into the seabed about 100 miles from New York City. Biden proposes making underwater canyon off New York a marine sanctuary 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “When the earth was cooling down after the flood, the ice age came,” he said. The surprising voyage of Charlie Duke: An astronaut reaches for heaven 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Glaciers in the Cordillera Real began to lose mass at the end of the small ice age in the 17th century, but this process has accelerated with global warming, scientists say. In Bolivia, a battle over a receding glacier 'doomed to disappear' 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The formation of barrier islands is controversial; some workers believe as above that barrier islands were formed by rising sea level as the ice sheets melted after the last ice age. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z DENVER—Dogs first came to the Americas about 16,000 years ago, likely on the heels of ice age hunters crossing a bygone land bridge from Siberia. Jamestown colonists may have kept, eaten indigenous American dogs 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z That was because our ancestors lived outdoors in seasonally cold temperatures, endured the ice age and migrated to colder climates. Perspective | Are ice-cold showers good for you? I tried it for two months. 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Scotland was home to hunter-gatherers from about 10,000 years ago, after the end of the last ice age. Search for hunter-gatherer sites high in the Cairngorms 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z At the end of the last ice age, South America was home to strange animals that have since vanished into extinction: giant ground sloths, elephant-like herbivores and an ancient lineage of horses. Does This Amazon Rock Art Depict Extinct Ice Age Mammals? 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z A team has created the first scientifically accurate, animated digital models of extinct mammoths, ground sloths, and other ice age animals excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. News at a glance: Hong Kong’s high COVID-19 death rate, Biden’s ‘test and treat,’ and a ResearchGate lawsuit 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z These ice age animals have been extinct for more than 10,000 years, but scientists are bringing them back to life—virtually. Ice Age Animals Come to Life via Augmented Reality 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The contours of the forest may have shifted somewhat in response to ice ages, wildfires and rising seas, but it was always able to return to its lush, verdant state. Satellite images show the Amazon rainforest is hurtling toward a ‘tipping point’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z The project's team are producing new geological data on the timing and pattern of the last ice age's melting glaciers to help better understand how the landscape was later used by prehistoric communities. Search for hunter-gatherer sites high in the Cairngorms 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z A new study suggests that we can see these lost creatures in enchanting ocher paintings made by ice age humans on a rocky outcrop in the Colombian Amazon. Does This Amazon Rock Art Depict Extinct Ice Age Mammals? 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z The last of these ice ages ended about 10,000 years ago. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The team developed three-dimensional, animated models of some of the ice age animals found in the site of Rancho La Brea, better known as the La Brea Tar Pits, in Los Angeles. Ice Age Animals Come to Life via Augmented Reality 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z They must remain undisturbed for 100,000 years, even as the warming climate of coming centuries gives way to the next ice age. Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100,000 years? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z For instance, the work suggests that during the last ice age, some African societies may have become more sedentary and isolated as their environments fragmented. Oldest human DNA from Africa reveals complex migrations 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z “With fewer people going out, it means no business for restaurants. This fifth wave really impacts us terribly. It’s really an ice age for the catering business.” ‘No-COVID’ policy drags on Hong Kong economy as cases surge 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Recent research estimates these organisms date back some 250 million years, and in that time, they have persevered through an asteroid strike and several ice ages. Lichens Could Need More than a Million Years to Adapt to Climate Change 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The researchers re-created 13 popular ice age animals—including a dire wolf, saber-toothed cat, American lion and Columbian mammoth—using low-polygon, or “low-poly,” graphics. Ice Age Animals Come to Life via Augmented Reality 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Posiva scientists don’t expect significant earthquakes in the region until after the next ice age. Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100,000 years? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The geology at the falls was carved by ice age floods more than 13,000 years ago, giving the waterfall national significance, she said. Parts of Palouse Falls State Park closing permanently. 4 visitors have died there 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z But while Alaska and eastern Siberia were connected during the last ice age, the land wasn’t a viable crossing for people until about 12,000 years ago. Perspective | Five myths about the Arctic 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z The tundra ground cover — a thick mat of damp, stunted vegetation — has sat atop the permafrost that's existed since at least the last ice age. Gravel or green: What will become of Alaska’s coastal plain? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Instead of guessing at unknowns, the team focused on incorporating the most up-to-date paleontological findings about how these ice age animals looked and behaved. Ice Age Animals Come to Life via Augmented Reality 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2010, Saarnisto told Finland’s national broadcaster that as the next ice age arrives, freezing soil and rock could create pressures that would damage the repository. Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100,000 years? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Some patches of the peatlands in Congo’s Central Basin have been accumulating and storing carbon since the late days of the Earth’s last major ice age, around 17,000 years ago. The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb The first genetic analysis of the ice age carnivores finds that they are so different from other wolves, coyotes, and dogs that they don’t belong in the same genus as these animals. Our favorite science news stories of 2021 (non–COVID-19 edition) 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z And by comparing 12,000-year-old black bear DNA from Mexico’s Chiquihuite Cave with that of modern bears, scientists discovered that after the last ice age, the cave bears’ descendants migrated as far north as Alaska. Science’s 2021 Breakthrough of the Year: AI brings protein structures to all 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Along with various biological phenomena, including the “extravagant consumption” of carbon by trees, such events have contrived to undermine the greenhouse effect and propel the Earth into a series of protracted ice ages. Review | With failed experiments and bizarre successes, evolution marches on 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Mammoths are among the best-known inhabitants of the last ice age. Mammoth Tusk Reveals Ancient Mammal’s Travels 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of the healthiest communities live along the coast of British Columbia up through southeastern Alaska, where thousands of glaciers—vestiges of the last ice age—used to terminate in the Pacific. Melting glaciers may produce thousands of kilometers of new salmon habitat 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “I think what we’re experiencing right now is a fluctuation that’s not as serious as an ice age and it will go back to normal,” said Wright, a Republican who lives in Central Texas. The strong winds of climate change have failed to move the opinions of many Americans 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “We thought we were going back to the ice age,” Sauer says with a wry smile, seated in the shade of a gazebo surrounded by his vines near the Mount Adams foothills. Washington wineries work to weather the challenges of climate change 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z He suggested it was not global warming one need worry about, but “a mini ice age.” Boris Johnson used to mock ‘eco-doomsters.’ Now he’s a climate champion. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Now, their ancient DNA reveals they were local people with deep roots in Asia, the last known members of an ice age population that was once widespread across Eurasia. News at a glance: Climate promises, a predatory ‘Hydra’ publisher, and tracking the birth of elements 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, they appear to be relics of an ancient population that disappeared in Eurasia after the last ice age—one that was ancestral to Indigenous peoples living in Siberia and the Americas today. Western China’s mysterious mummies were local descendants of ice age ancestors 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The new cores would open a window on a warmer climate, more than 1 million years ago, when ice ages occurred every 40,000 years. Hunt begins for ancient Antarctic ice—and clues to Earth’s response to rising temperatures 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z At the end of the last ice age, in the fertile river valleys of the Middle East, China and Mexico, people found they could sustain themselves more easily by cultivating crops. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Based on the size of the footprints, researchers believe that at least some were made by children and teenagers who lived during the last ice age. Oldest human footprints in North America found in New Mexico 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z At times throughout the Pleistocene ice age, which ended 10,000 years ago, large ice sheets covered much of Europe and North America. Fossil footprints prove humans populated the Americas thousands of years earlier than we thought 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z For decades, many archaeologists have maintained that humans spread across North and South America only at the end of the last ice age. Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z They might also reveal whether changes in atmospheric carbon were behind Earth’s jump to the 100,000-year ice age cycle. Hunt begins for ancient Antarctic ice—and clues to Earth’s response to rising temperatures 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z If the dates are right, the discovery would be the strongest evidence yet that people reached the Americas during the middle of the last ice age, thousands of years earlier than many archaeologists thought. Human footprints near ice age lake suggest surprisingly early arrival in the Americas 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Earlier excavations in the White Sands park have uncovered fossilized tracks left by a saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, Columbian mammoth and other ice age animals. Oldest human footprints in North America found in New Mexico 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z These big game hunters were thought to have crossed a land bridge across the Bering Straits that connected Siberia with Alaska during the last ice age, when sea levels were much lower. Earliest definitive evidence of people in Americas 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The results came as a shock: The ditch grass had grown thousands of years before the end of the last ice age. Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In another view, however, the trigger for longer ice ages was a small drop in CO2 levels, perhaps driven by dust-fertilized plankton in the Southern Ocean that absorbed the gas from the atmosphere. Hunt begins for ancient Antarctic ice—and clues to Earth’s response to rising temperatures 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z During the maximum extent of the last ice age, from about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, land connected Russia and Alaska, allowing people to settle the now mostly submerged region archaeologists call Beringia. Human footprints near ice age lake suggest surprisingly early arrival in the Americas 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Along the edges of a vanished ice age lake are the fossilized tracks of people who lived among the mammoths, giant ground sloths and other Pleistocene mammals of ancient New Mexico. Footprint Discovery Hints at Humans in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z About 200,000 years ago, ice age children squished their hands and feet into sticky mud thousands of feet above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. Kids’ Fossilized Handprints May Be Some of the World’s Oldest Art 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Part of the problem is that the land is also sinking, mainly due to effects from the end of the last ice age. Scientists Flood Forests to Mimic Rising Seas 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z One occurred in 7176 B.C., as nomadic hunter-gatherer societies gave way to agrarian settlements, and the other did so in 5259 B.C., as the planet emerged from the final throes of its latest ice age. Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Mammoths are among the best-known inhabitants of the last ice age, but their travels across the tundra have long remained a mystery. Mammoth Tusk Analysis Reveals Epic Lifetime Journey around Alaska 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z These factors seem to have allowed the spotted skunks to branch into new species over the course of the last ice age and its alterations to North America’s climate. Meet the Spotted Skunks. They’ve Been Keeping a Secret From Us. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Research shows that human greenhouse gas emissions have caused the ocean to warm faster in recent years than at any point since the end of the last ice age. How climate change helped make Hurricane Ida one of Louisiana’s worst 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z At the time that Kik died, the world was still at the height of the last ice age, but the glaciers did not flow over most of Alaska then. A Woolly Mammoth’s Tusks Reveal a Map of Where It Roamed in Life 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z And oceans are also heating up at a pace not seen since the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago. Earth Is Warmer Than It’s Been in 125,000 Years 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Woolly mammoths roamed North America, Europe and northern Asia during the last ice age. Mammoth Tusk Analysis Reveals Epic Lifetime Journey around Alaska 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Studies suggest that toward the end of the last ice age, a massive glacial lake burst through a declining North American ice sheet. A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Studies suggest that, toward the end of the last ice age, a massive glacial lake burst through a declining North American ice sheet. A critical Atlantic Ocean system may be heading for collapse from climate change, study finds 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z If her hypothesis bears out, the 890-million-year old sponge fossils prompt other difficult questions: How did sponges survive ice ages and dramatic rises in oxygen? These Could Be the Oldest Animal Fossils Ever Found, or Just Squiggles 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z In that way, the celestial event could have cooled the climate and helped initiate the ice ages 2.5 million years ago, at the start of the Pleistocene epoch. Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The tusk came from a male mammoth who lived to be about 28 years old during the last ice age in what is now Alaska. Mammoth Tusk Analysis Reveals Epic Lifetime Journey around Alaska 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z To bolster his argument, Parkinson points to the most recent period when oceans rose quickly: the end of the last ice age. This ecologist thinks coastal wetlands can outrun rising seas. Not everyone’s convinced 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But sometime before the end of the last ice age, they vanished. Last ice age wiped out people in East Asia as well as Europe 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z For reference, the difference in global average temperatures between now and the peak of the last ice age, when ice sheets covered large parts of North America and Europe, is about 11 degrees Fahrenheit. The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Researchers had not really known how bears fared during the last ice age and what happened when the planet warmed again. Team recovers ancient genomes from dirt, revealing new history of North America’s bears 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Gray wolves are one of the largest predators that survived extinction at the end of the Pleistocene ice age. How the gray wolf survived the Ice Age 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Arsuaga says this mirrors a similar pattern in modern humans in Africa, who also underwent a surge in brain size and multiple population replacements with the onset of the ice age. DNA from cave dirt tells tale of how some Neanderthals disappeared 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z This population turnover in ice age East Asia eerily echoes what happened around the same time in Europe. Last ice age wiped out people in East Asia as well as Europe 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The concentration of CO2 is also increasing about 100 times faster than it did at the end of the last ice age. The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z The samples in question—from a cave floor in northern Mexico—not only reveal another way to get such genetic material, they help clarify the history of North America’s ice age bears. Team recovers ancient genomes from dirt, revealing new history of North America’s bears 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z When the Earth descended into its most recent ice age, an era known as the Pleistocene, the world's food web was completely disrupted. How the gray wolf survived the Ice Age 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Even though many societies survived the pressures of the mini ice ages, Degroot found that resilience sometimes "is a product of one community having access to favorite resources, maybe over another." Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z But by the end of the ice age, about 19,000 years ago, there were no genetic nor fossil traces of this earlier population. Last ice age wiped out people in East Asia as well as Europe 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Others believe it happened in response to glacial cycles, a way to cope with ice ages. Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z “It’s an iconic species of the last ice age,” he said. Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites the Mammoth Family Tree 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The fossils dated to the end of the Pleistocene ice age, about 18,000 years ago, and had been found across the region, including in Louisiana's Tunica Hills. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Specifically, well-meaning scientists accidentally unleash an ice age as they tried to curb the heating of the planet setting off an extinction event. Blu-ray TV reviews: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Doom Patrol’ 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Like those on our planet, glaciers hint at a previous ice age. Scientists get closer to understanding Mars' ice ages by looking to Antarctica 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Bruce Heyman, a U.S. envoy during Obama’s presidency, wrote that it touched off an “ice age” in relations that took years to thaw. Biden’s plan to cancel Keystone pipeline signals a rocky start with Canada 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “It is very worrying, and given the current situation the end result is likely to be the eventual destruction of this ice age Indonesian art, perhaps even within our lifetime.” Pig Painting May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art Yet, Archaeologists Say 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z As the ice age began to fade roughly 18,000 years ago, temperatures spiked, seas rose, and species raced to follow the conditions that suited them. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The La Brea asphalt seeps famously document how prey animals mired in tar lured many of these ice age predators to a sticky death. Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet little is known about these Martian ice ages. Scientists get closer to understanding Mars' ice ages by looking to Antarctica 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z It was a mild period in an ice age called an interstadial, when temperatures were warm enough for there to be flowing rivers and streams in the area. A Wolf Pup Mummy From the Ancient Arctic 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z During the ice ages, when much of the nation was frozen under these giant glaciers, Alabama wasn't. Is it too late to save "America’s Amazon"? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z When Deevey looked around him, he saw a floral community shaped by the ice ages. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z “The study of ancient DNA and proteins from fossil bones is rapidly rewriting the ice age and more recent history of North America’s mammals,” Zazula says. Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Yet there is still much unknown about the ice age — or ages — on Mars. Scientists get closer to understanding Mars' ice ages by looking to Antarctica 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z The most recent epoch, the Holocene, began at the end of the last ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago. Dramatic Scope of the Anthropocene Can Be Seen from Above 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z For most of the Holocene, the epoch since the last ice age, California was defined more by wetlands, grasslands and chaparral than by forests. Op-Ed: The Golden State treescape wasn't made to last 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z "We note a Quaternary conundrum," the authors wrote — although the modeling data suggested that many species could be at risk from climate change, they wrote, "during the recent ice ages surprisingly few species became extinct." The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The new findings also add layers to experts’ ruminations on why dire wolves eventually disappeared as the last ice age closed. Dire Wolves Were Not Really Wolves, New Genetic Clues Reveal 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Levy and his team predicted if glaciers formed more quickly, suggesting multiple ice ages over shorter spans of time, there would be a group of larger rocks near the top of the glaciers they studied. Scientists get closer to understanding Mars' ice ages by looking to Antarctica 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Sometime toward the end of the last ice age, a gray wolf gingerly approached a human encampment. How dogs tracked their humans across the ancient world 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The climate grew dryer in the Pliocene, pushing back South American forests and beginning a cycle of global cooling that eventually led to the ice ages. What Happened to South America’s Missing Mega-Mammals? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Scientists had usually identified the fossils as white spruce, a species that now lives far to the north, but they'd been arguing for decades about what its presence said about the region's ice age climate. The enduring mystery of Critchfield’s spruce 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The fastest biological process, and the one nature uses to remove CO2 before ice ages, is ocean photosynthesis in algae or seaweed, such as kelp. Perspective | Stopping climate change could cost less than fighting covid-19 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The new curve bumps the transition period at the end of the last ice age to 50 years earlier. Long-Awaited Update Arrives for Radiocarbon Dating 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z When the last ice age ended, forests and grasslands regrew across North America, creating a landscape that remained stable for thousands of years. Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Glaciers scour away soil as they advance, but they largely bypassed Siberia during recent ice ages, leaving the permafrost in some areas hundreds of meters thick. Siberia’s ‘gateway to the underworld’ grows as record heat wave thaws permafrost 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z With the coastal-entry model, it might be presumed that the earliest archaeological sites are now submerged offshore by the rise in sea level at the end of the last ice age. Evidence grows that peopling of the Americas began more than 20,000 years ago 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z At the height of the last ice age 26,000 years ago, North America would have been a dangerous place. Controversial cave discoveries suggest humans reached Americas much earlier than thought 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z More than 2.5m years ago, during the last ice age, the strait receded, cutting off the Red Sea and rendering it inhospitable. Heat-resistant corals offer hope as climate crisis warms up oceans 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The Columbian mammoth vanished at the end of the last ice age. Mexico City was once the realm of the mammoth 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Bring a kayak, paddle board, or full-on boat to get up close with the area’s geologic wonder carved by glaciers in the last ice age. Sunny Pacific Northwest road trips to take while maintaining coronavirus-mandated social distancing 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z During the last ice age, glaciers blocked entry by land into the Americas until an ice-free corridor opened up. Evidence grows that peopling of the Americas began more than 20,000 years ago 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “That’s when the forests in the U.S. started looking like they do today, after the ice ages ended.” Noisy Cicadas Are Widely Misunderstood 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Dowdeswell said he believes the circumstances today might be similar to what was going on at the end of the last ice age. Rapid Antarctic Ice Melt in the Past Bodes Ill for the Future 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z As the climate warmed after the Devonian’s last ice age, lakes formed and filled with sediment that slowly turned to mudstone, recording conditions before and during the extinction. No asteroids or volcanoes needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “The economy went into an ice age overnight. We’re in a deep freeze. As the economy thaws, we’ll see the damage done as well. Flooding will occur.” Analysis | There’s a growing possibility of a W-shaped economic recovery — and it’s scary 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The movie, starring Chris Evans, is based on a French graphic novel that’s set in a world where attempts to stop global warming resulted in a catastrophic new ice age. The 5 best movies to watch on Netflix 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Some of the best places are valleys, now buried, that once existed in the Central Valley and were filled with coarse sediments during the last ice age. Droughts exposed California’s thirst for groundwater. Now, the state hopes to refill its aquifers 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “It’s an ice age,” Pollard said in a phone interview. Disruption to football season would be very bad for all of college sports 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And then, just as the planet was warming from one of these ice ages, another extinction struck, seemingly without reason. No asteroids or volcanoes needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The Amazon basin was a hotspot for the early cultivation of wild plants such as squash and cassava, with inhabitants munching on them after the last ice age more than 10,000 years ago. US briefing: global poverty warning, Trump agenda, misinformation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago, saw a sustained rise in global temperatures that initiated many changes around the world. Crops cultivated in Amazonia '10,000 years ago' 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z “That region was an important refuge for biodiversity during the ice ages,” he added, helping foster the appearance of new species. Fossil teeth yield oldest genetic material from extinct human species 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z The wood was too old for radiocarbon dating, but by analyzing tree rings, pollen grains and sand, she and a team of researchers discovered that it was two ice ages old. Creatures in This Underwater Forest Could Save Your Life One Day 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z But in the warm periods between ice ages, known as interglacials, scientists assume the Atlantic circulation is stable. Ancient warming threw this crucial Atlantic current into chaos. It could happen again 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius became interested in the causes of Earth’s ice ages. Forty years of ice-core records of CO2 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z They believe their study is another example of the global impact of the environmental changes being felt as the world warmed up at the end of the last ice age. Crops cultivated in Amazonia '10,000 years ago' 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z They have survived more than 30 ice ages, yet so delicate are these creatures that they shrivel and die almost as soon as the rocks under which they live are overturned. Introducing the April 2020 Issue 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Examples of things which made life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin and death. Scientific Rebel Freeman Dyson Dies 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Experts at the National Zoo in Washington said in a statement that “cheetahs naturally have low genetic diversity due to a near extinction at the end of the last ice age.” First cheetah cubs are born from IVF with help from scientists at National Zoo 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Thus, the orbital theory was promoted as a pacemaker of the ice age, with various feedback loops amplifying tiny changes in insolation. Forty years of ice-core records of CO2 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Experts at the National Zoo in the District of Columbia said in a statement that “cheetahs naturally have low genetic diversity due to a near extinction at the end of the last ice age.” First cheetah cubs are born from in vitro fertilization 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Researchers analysed Antarctic ice cores to determine the origins of methane released during a warming period that ended the last ice age. Daily briefing: Retreating glacier reveals uncharted island in Antarctica 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The study of ancient methane emissions, on the other hand, is consistent with her research, which shows that permafrost lakes didn’t release vast quantities of methane as the planet left its last ice age. Only humans can create climate-altering methane burns, new studies suggest 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z That period coincides with the rapid ending of an ice age, when rising seas inundated northern Australia and shrank the lands of the Kimberley region by half. Mysterious Australian rock art may depict the chaos following rising seas 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z I am a geologist who specializes in understanding the timing and extent of past ice ages. 200 years of exploring Antarctica—the world’s coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Sites there date back 20,000 years to the last ice age. Thousands of ancient Aboriginal sites probably damaged in fires 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Intriguingly, that timing roughly coincides with the end of one of our planet’s ice ages. Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Impact Found in Australia 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Snowdon, in Wales, noting, “Take a dip here and you are swimming with the Torgoch, a rare type of Arctic char fish that has survived since the ice age.” The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Some speculated that our planet’s axis would tilt wildly, triggering haphazard ice ages, and that its core might lose its stability, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The modern-day homes of cave-dwelling arachnids called harvestmen trace the long-gone southern limits of glaciers at the peak of the last major ice age, about 22,000 years ago, recent research suggests. Cave Arachnids’ Modern Range Matches Ancient Glacier Outline 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Then followed the immolation of vast areas of moist Tasmanian forests, forests that date back to the last ice age. 2019 has been a year of climate disaster. Yet still our leaders procrastinate | Geoff Goldrick 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The Neolithic village was long ago overtaken by the sea as it swelled from glacial melting at the end of the last ice age. Ancient seawall shows how ancestors tried to cope with rising seas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z But, Dr. Hoffman added, whether or not this oxygen pump was the main thing that helped many living things survive those ice ages is still an open question. How Life on Our Planet Made It Through Snowball Earth 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z After a relatively warm interregnum, a new ice age is upon us. Review: 'Frozen' blows into the Pantages with gorgeous singing and a symphony of stagecraft 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Herzschuh found that certain larch species did not shift northward as the planet warmed after the last ice age, despite preferring a colder climate. DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Nearly 600 million years ago, a massive ice age radically altered the planet's climate, resulting in a "Snowball Earth." 'Snowball Earth' discovery: Experts reveal how life survived prehistoric ice age 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Scientists say the phenomenon, which is happening very slowly, involves the upward lift of northern landmasses that were compressed by glaciers during the last ice age. Chicago Takes a Beating as Lake Levels Surge 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The seas could swell by as much as 60cm by 2050, a situation compounded by the fact the land is sinking, a hangover caused by the retreat of ice sheets from the last ice age. ‘Culture will be eroded’: climate crisis threatens to flood Harriet Tubman park 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z The otherworldly white surface began forming at the end of the last ice age when Lake Bonneville receded. Where Cars Try to Hit Mach 1, the Salt of the Earth Is Crumbling 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Californians are learning what it means to coexist with fire – a lesson indigenous people have known roughly since the ice age – but doing so under the new extremes of global heating. 'Fire is medicine': The tribes burning California forests to save them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But the researchers from McGill University found that the meltwater from the glaciers created pockets of oxygen in the oceans, which let life thrive until the ice age ended and they were able to emerge. 'Snowball Earth' discovery: Experts reveal how life survived prehistoric ice age 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z During the last ice age, humans survived in continental Europe by eating reindeer. The Fight for the Reindeer 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Then, in the 1960s, a few scientists began to focus on an unusual event that took place after the last ice age. Opinion | How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The Whitsunday Islands – a collection of white-sand resorts and nature reserves set among coral reefs – are the peaks of drowned mountains that went under at the end of the last ice age. Queensland shark attack follows a familiar pattern: first horror, then a media feeding frenzy 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “It’s surprising,” Yan says, given broad evidence that the world was warmer in the early Pleistocene, before the ice ages grew deeper. World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The study, published last month, notes that the ice age left the planet "a barren, flooded landscape" with "clear oceans," according to how carbonate sedimentary rocks formed over millions of years after the Snowball Earth. 600M-year-old ice age caused 'Snowball Earth,' radically changing planet's climate 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The event dramatically cooled the planet and triggered an ice age that was followed by major increases in numbers of new animal species. New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z In The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Lessing examines human behaviour in the face of a brutal ice age. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A team of researchers led by Birger Schmitz, a nuclear physicist at Lund University in Sweden, found that a distant, ancient asteroid collision generated enough dust to cause an ice age long ago on Earth. How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Given its limitations, including a small amount of material collected by a narrow drill, the Allan Hills core is unlikely to settle debate on the ice age transition. World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z And through dating mechanisms, it's possible to verify that the dust fell around the same time as an ice age began. Huge asteroid triggered ancient ice age after dust blocked sunlight for 2M years 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Reduced radiation caused Earth to cool significantly, setting off a succession of ice ages. New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The dire predictions, often repeated in the media, warned of a variety of impending disasters – famine, drought, a new ice age, and even disappearing nations – if the world failed to act. 'Run for America' co-founder backs climate strike: We are dealing with a 'crisis' 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Dr. Schmitz, Dr. Heck and their team found that the dust triggered cooling in Earth’s atmosphere that led to an ice age. How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Scientists have long known that tiny changes in Earth’s orbit, called Milankovitch cycles, drive the planet in and out of these ice ages. World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z An enormous dust cloud that swept through the ancient solar system sent Earth into a mini ice age that sparked an explosion in primitive life on the planet, scientists say. Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Scientists already knew ice ages appeared at this time and that life went through a spectacular increase in biodiversity, particularly in the sea. New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Instead, some paleontologists offered a different trigger for the GOBE: a succession of ice ages that took place at the same time. Veil of dust from ancient asteroid breakup may have cooled Earth 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In 1970, The Boston Globe ran the headline, "Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century." Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z When the planet transitioned to 100,000-year ice ages, for example, levels of CO2 dropped on average 24 ppm lower during glacial periods compared with similar events in the previous era. World’s oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped’ ice age cycles 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “We can nail that this ice age started to form when the dust from the break-up fell to Earth,” Schmitz said. Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The Rocks’ unique terroir is a combination of basalt gravel and sediment deposited during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last ice age, more than 13,000 years ago. Like wine from France’s Rhone Valley? Head to Walla Walla 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Dust from the breakup blanketed the planet, says Birger Schmitz, a geologist at Lund University in Sweden, plunging it into an ice age that was soon followed by an explosion in animal life. Veil of dust from ancient asteroid breakup may have cooled Earth 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The dire predictions, often repeated in the media, warned of a variety of impending disasters – famine, drought, an ice age, and even disappearing nations – if the world failed to act on climate change. Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z These include examining embedded pollen, sooty black-carbon particles and bacteria for clues to how the Amazon’s extreme biodiversity has evolved since the last ice age. Daring scientists extract ice from Earth's highest tropical glacier 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Evidence from rock formations suggests that Earth experienced an unusual, short-lived ice age about 466m years ago. Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “The real danger of a no-deal Brexit … is the political implications, and for a long while there will be an ice age between the EU and the UK,” Wolff said. Trump or Europe? UK's Johnson to sample post-Brexit reality at G7... 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Spano then pointed out, correctly, that in the 1970s the media were widely reporting on scientists proclaiming the world was cooling and the coming of a second ice age. Florida editorial roundup 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Just years prior, Time magazine echoed other media outlets in suggesting that "another ice age" was imminent. Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The ice cores from Mount Huascarán could reveal new details about temperature changes in in the Andes Mountains and the adjacent Amazon basin since the last ice age.Credit: Daring scientists extract ice from Earth's highest tropical glacier 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In the hope of shedding light on the mysterious ice age, Schmitz and his colleagues went looking for clues in ancient limestone rocks exposed at sites in southern Sweden and near St Petersburg in Russia. Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z An ice age is rapidly worsening outside, and the man of the house is late returning from the office. Review: At Theatricum, humans survive apocalypse by 'The Skin of Our Teeth' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z This new epoch would mark a clear departure from the Holocene, which started with the close of the last ice age. Humans versus Earth: the quest to define the Anthropocene 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The regrowth of centuries-old mosses suggests that glaciers and permafrost are not merely graveyards for multicellular life, but they could instead help organisms withstand ice ages. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Near the dawn of the last ice age, an enormous terrestrial bird about three times the size of a modern ostrich jogged across eastern Europe, according to a fossil femur recently found in Crimea. Extinct 11-Foot "Super-Ostrich" Was As Massive As a Polar Bear 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The Pleistocene Epoch stretched from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and included the most recent ice age of global cooling. The severed head of a prehistoric wolf was found in Siberia — perfectly preserved 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z With the U.S. not quite a year into World War II, Wilder piled catastrophes atop one another: ice age, Noah’s flood and a great war. Review: At Theatricum, humans survive apocalypse by 'The Skin of Our Teeth' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The disappearance of the giant beaver coincides with that of many other large-bodied ice age animals, including the iconic woolly mammoth. Why Giant Human-Sized Beavers Died Out 10,000 Years Ago 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z While the elderly mosses discovered by La Farge and Convey are remarkable, the clique of ice age survivors extends well beyond this one group of plants. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z And perhaps it explains why men wearing suits and ties are determined to plunge their offices into an ice age. Women's brains work better in warmer offices, study finds 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z A giant comet hits the Earth, creating collossal earthquakes, giant tsunamis and ultimately the beginning of a new ice age. Top 10 end-of-the-world novels 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Karner blues inhabit only pine barrens and oak savannas, rare habitats of wildflowers and grasses interspersed with trees, that occur in poor, sandy soil deposited by ice age glaciers. Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change? 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It was not cutting down trees for food or building giant lodges and dams across the ice age landscape. Why Giant Human-Sized Beavers Died Out 10,000 Years Ago 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z These ice age zombies range from simple bacteria to multicellular animals, and their endurance is prompting scientists to revise their understanding of what it means to survive. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Whenever the Earth went into an ice age and temperatures fell, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would also decline. European team to drill for 'oldest ice' 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Lack of river water will lead people to pump more groundwater, which was deposited in the ice ages. Amid 19-Year Drought, States Sign Deal to Conserve Colorado River Water 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Iberia, it now seems, was a crossroads long before recorded history, as far back as the last ice age. A History of the Iberian Peninsula, as Told by Its Skeletons 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Towards the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the climate became increasingly warm and dry and wetland habitats began to dry up. Why Giant Human-Sized Beavers Died Out 10,000 Years Ago 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z A microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, Vishnivetskaya drills deep into the Siberian permafrost to map the web of single-celled organisms that flourished ice ages ago. Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z But ice ages - from their minimum to their maximum states - involve variations of six degrees. European team to drill for 'oldest ice' 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z This issue may be compounded by the slow sinking of North Carolina’s coastal plain since the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. Ruined crops, salty soil: How rising seas are poisoning North Carolina’s farmland 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Arriving after the last ice age, wildcats were once widespread across northern parts of the UK mainland and Wales. Imported wildcats to come to rescue of Scottish species 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As glaciers retreated at the end of the ice age, reefs moved in to recolonize the southern part of the sea, where temperatures ran exceedingly high. Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Earth has had five or so ice ages. Rivers Solomon on colonialism, the apocalypse, and fascinating fungus 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z The end of the last ice age, for example, was set at about 10,000 years ago. Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The 11,700 or so years following the last major ice age are collectively called the Holocene, a geological chapter in earth’s biography that includes the development of all human civilization. Why your chicken wings mean we’ve entered a new epoch | Max Elder 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The spores of a fungus called Sporormiella live on herbivore dung and are often used to track past populations of large plant eaters, including ice age giants like mastodons and mammoths. Mites that feed on llama poop may track the rise and fall of the Incan Empire 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “That is probably what’s keeping us centered in an ice age,” Kent adds. Rise of carbon dioxide–absorbing mountains in tropics may set thermostat for global climate 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The discovery could lead to insights into the ice age climate, and the effects on it from the eruption of debris that would have resulted from such a cataclysmic collision. Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Scientists named the “Holocene” to mark the period starting 12,000 or so years ago after the last ice age ended. You've Heard of the Anthropocene? Welcome to the Hellocene 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Kjaer said that the crater’s condition indicates the impact might even have occurred toward the end of the last ice age, which would place the resulting crater among the youngest on the planet. Kansas university researchers help uncover ancient asteroid 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “By the time my daughter is an old woman, the climate will be as different for her as the last ice age seems to us,” Dr. Tercek said. Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Among fish, the native brook trout, here since the last ice age, are being pushed farther upstream. Opinion | Are there fish in there? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They kept moving, eventually reaching south of the ice age glaciers. Crossing from Asia, the first Americans rushed into the unknown 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Kjær believes that the crater’s condition indicates it likely occurred toward the end of the last ice age, placing it among the youngest craters on the planet. Earth smacked by an asteroid 19-miles-wide thousands of years ago: 'It rocked the Northern Hemisphere' 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The Younger Dryas was a period of strong cooling in the middle of the climatic warming that occurred as the Earth emerged from the height of last ice age. Greenland ice hides huge 'impact crater' 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Michael Tercek's line about his daughter and the ice age is what caught me. Your Children’s Yellowstone Will Be Radically Different 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z They were trying to explain a cooling event, more than 1000 years long, called the Younger Dryas, which began 12,800 years ago, as the last ice age was ending. Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Around 20,000 years ago -- the time when cave painters began to depict humans -- coincides with the peak of the last ice age; the changing climate likely altered how people thought and behaved. This 40,000-year-old cow painting marks a key moment in the evolution of art 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z They kept moving, eventually arriving south of the ice age glaciers. Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The white rhino, he added, is one of the few large animals to survive the last ice age. Rhino rescue? Scientists may hold key to saving northern white rhinoceros from extinction 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z From bringing down mammoths in the ice ages to the gladiatorial battles of Roman times, whether for food or sport, humans have always pitted themselves against animals. Who would want to kill a lion? Inside the minds of trophy hunters 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z During the last ice age, the North Atlantic saw 25 other cooling spells, probably triggered by disruptions to the Atlantic's overturning circulation. Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The hearty shrub started evolving before the ice age. Couple dedicates life to clearing Kalmiopsis Trail 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Earlier studies had indicated that people moved into the Americas at the end of the last ice age, traveling from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge now under the Bering Sea. Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Rewilding is often associated with an ambitious proposal to restore large mammals, including even ice age mammoths, to a huge park in Russia. ‘Rewilding’ landscapes with rhinos and reindeer could prevent fires and keep Arctic cool 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z In an essay last week, he noted the difference in the global average surface temperature between the last ice age and today - around 4 degrees to 7 degrees. Editorials from around Ohio 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “Deep down I was hoping for an ice age,” he confesses. How to Write About a Vanishing World 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Researchers knew that a proportion of this wobble was caused by glacial isostatic adjustment, an ongoing process since the end of the last ice age 16,000 years ago. Humans Contribute to Earth's Wobble, Scientists Say 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Two mummified ice age mammals – a wolf pup and a caribou calf – were discovered by gold miners in the area in 2016 and unveiled on Thursday at a ceremony in Dawson in Yukon territory. Spectacular ice age wolf pup and caribou dug up in Canada 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Belugas generally live in more northern waters, but a fluke of evolution means a branch of the species remained in the St Lawrence River after the last ice age. 'One of the boys': lost narwhal finds new home with band of beluga whales 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Twelve-thousand-years old, carved by the last ice age, it provides a sense of place for Seattle just like the very young 56-year-old Space Needle. You can see change closing in on Lake Union, Seattle’s hardworking, ever-evolving waterway 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z After the end of the last ice age — as sea levels rose, glaciers receded and global average temperatures soared as much as seven degrees Celsius — the Earth’s ecosystems were utterly transformed. Climate change could render many of Earth’s ecosystems unrecognizable 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Another study in the journal looked at how the world’s vegetation changed since the last ice age and applied that concept to current warming. Global warming could spur more and hungrier crop-eating bugs 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Scientists have long known that tiny changes in Earth's orbit around the sun, called Milankovitch cycles, drive the planet in and out of ice ages. Seafloor cores suggest sticky, thick glaciers caused mysterious shift in ice age rhythms 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Based on other ancient genomes, researchers already had concluded that Denisovans, Neanderthals, and modern humans interbred in ice age Europe and Asia. This ancient bone belonged to a child of two extinct human species 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z It is one of three newly named subdivisions of the Holocene, the geological epoch that began 11,700 years ago with the retreat of ice age glaciers. Massive drought or myth? Scientists spar over an ancient climate event behind our new geological age 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Just as whales truly became giants in the gauntlet of the recent ice ages, Homo sapiens reached its superlative qualities only in Earth’s geological yesterday. We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The resulting family tree revealed that arctic walruses branched off into two distinct groups between 23,400 and 251,120 years ago, perhaps split up by glaciers during an ice age. This walrus tusk trinket may shed light on the early days of Viking trading 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Before Earth's current ice age cycles began 3 million years ago, a long warm period had allowed a thick soil layer to build up on northern landmasses. Seafloor cores suggest sticky, thick glaciers caused mysterious shift in ice age rhythms 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Each is a climatically distinct period of the current Holocene epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. Fruit-fly brain, the real Lorax and new geological ages 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z In Sorensen's view, ice age Neanderthals created fires only when they were truly hankering for a blaze. Neanderthals could start fires with their stone tools, new study suggests 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Swans likely populated England after the last ice age. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It focused on a sudden collapse of the Amoc caused by global warming leading to a disastrous freezing and the dawning of a new ice age. Slower ocean current to boost warming 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The slowdown could have sharply cooled the North Atlantic region—and might have lengthened the ice age rhythm. Seafloor cores suggest sticky, thick glaciers caused mysterious shift in ice age rhythms 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The oldest phase of the Holocene - the exit from the ice age - will be known as the Greenlandian. Welcome to the Meghalayan Age 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The hominin dispersal probably occurred under the variable climates of the Pleistocene ice age. An early hominin arrival in Asia 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Roughly 11,000 years ago, the last ice age loosened its frosty grip. Ancient Royal Tomb Yields Strange New Ape Species 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The study found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago, but began growing again as the rebound effect took hold. Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But in The Future is Wild, the background was constantly changing all the time with new ice ages and new climate zones that don’t exist at the moment. This book imagines what animals might look like if humans went extinct 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z A spruce in Sweden, which sprouted sometime after the last ice age, is 9,500 years old, having survived all the upheavals of history and weather. The secret life and value of trees 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Klingelhofer rejects that idea, saying the loss of land "is more likely to have come since the last ice age" rather than after 1585. Archaeologists start a new hunt for the fabled Lost Colony of the New World 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Why should remnants of the last ice age be so prominent in New York City, of all places? How the Ice Age Shaped New York 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Thirteen thousand years ago, as the last ice age ended, entire stretches of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef perished. The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Image: Lego Despite the criticism, Herridge, Carnall, and Freedman are all excited that Lego is featuring ice age animals and inspiring kids about science. Digging mammoths in the Arctic isn’t as pretty and sci-fi as this new Lego set suggests 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The ice age ended about 11,700 years ago and the fossil record of ground sloths indicates they were extinct by then. New Mexico: fossilized tracks point to ice age hunters who tracked giant sloth 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Did our cave man ancestor worry about climate change when the last ice age ended 10,000 years and the glaciers retreated from the equator towards the poles? From Siberia, an Unlikely Cry: ‘We Need Greenpeace Out Here!’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Both monuments represent a leap beyond the naturalistic images of the ice age. This 11,000-year-old statue unearthed in Siberia may reveal ancient views of taboos and demons 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Then, they drilled 20 holes, extracting rock cores that contained fossil corals and sediments deposited over the past 30,000 years, spanning part of the last ice age and the warm millennia that followed. The Great Barrier Reef has had five near-death experiences in the past 30,000 years 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Whether this Bajau genetic adaptation happened after the last ice age or in the past few hundred years, both are very brief periods of time. Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Thornalley’s record, which spans those 1,600 years, suggests it started at the end of the little ice age, a period from about A.D. Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic's Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The earth spends 100s of millions of years in ice ages and then emerges for a few thousand years in interglacial warming periods. From Siberia, an Unlikely Cry: ‘We Need Greenpeace Out Here!’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The first study found significant Amoc weakening after the end of the little ice age in about 1850, the result of natural climate variability, with further weakening caused later by global warming. Gulf Stream current at its weakest in 1,600 years, studies show 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z At the close of the last ice age, from 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, the sea level was six to ten feet lower. Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Cleaved into existence by glaciers receding in the last ice age, the rivers today are nurseries for the five species of Pacific salmon, fish that fuel one of the globe’s most prolific fisheries. Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The last ice age started melting away around 19,000 years ago, which raised the global sea level by around 120 metres. A judge asks basic questions about climate change. We answer them 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z So count your blessings because the real danger is the next ice age, because it will finish human civilization like the dinosaurs, not this warm weather. From Siberia, an Unlikely Cry: ‘We Need Greenpeace Out Here!’ 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Changes in the relative height of the land and sea are important, too; much of Scandinavia’s coast has been slowly rising since heavy glaciers disappeared at the end of the last ice age. Attack of the extreme floods 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Through the work of passionate individuals curious of Oregon’s rich past, there now exists a greater understanding of ancient animals and landscapes that once dominated the area in the last great ice age. Columbian Mammoth tracks found at Fossil Lake 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z During the last ice age, the Floridian peninsula looked more like a stubby thumb than an index finger. 7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Site Found Underwater 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The spectacular cave paintings of woolly rhinos, mammoths and other ice age animals at famous sites such as Chauvet and Lascaux in France, among other examples, were all linked to early modern humans. Ancient Cave Paintings Clinch the Case for Neandertal Symbolism 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The last 11,700 years, before the end of the last ice age, constitute a relatively stable period of climate for human civilization. Scott Pruitt asks whether global warming ‘necessarily is a bad thing’ 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Big rocks fell into the Potomac, which during the last ice age was a much more violent river. Perspective | Republicans want to rename Gravelly Point. Here’s why we shouldn’t let them. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The method mimics plant growth during ice ages or other long freezes. Will a Banana With an Edible Peel Change the World? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Vast plains stretch for miles, former lake beds from the ice age, where cows graze. A Lifetime in Peru’s Glaciers, Slowly Melting Away 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Placing events on the human scale clouds your judgment - the ice age didn't appear in ten or even a hundred human generations. A Wet and Warm Spring, Then 200,000 Dead Saigas 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z In elementary school, the teachers told him that the earth might plunge into another ice age, and the news had scared him, but then the ice age never happened. Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z As we tramp down a slope that, prior to the last ice age, used to be the shore, Dargie points out various features of interest. The billionaire vs. the fly 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Roughly every two years we’re treated to headlines repeating the myth that Earth is headed for an imminent “mini ice age.” The 'imminent mini ice age' myth is back, and it's still wrong | Dana Nuccitelli 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The sign explains what causes ice ages, Earth’s cyclical periods when temperatures drop and glaciers spread. The climate change misinformation at a top museum is not a conservative conspiracy 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Michael Lehman said, “This is an animal that survived the ice age, so they are a pretty interesting animal.” Redmond farm breeding ostriches to sell their meat 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z You folks would blame global warming on a new ice age even though there have been many before even a cigarette was lit. ‘Bomb Cyclone’: Snow and Bitter Cold Blast the Northeast 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Beringia refers to Alaska and the eastern tip of Siberia, and to the land bridge that joined them during the last ice age. In the Bones of a Buried Child, Signs of a Massive Human Migration to the Americas 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps these factors motivate journalists to write these frequent ‘mini ice age’ stories. The 'imminent mini ice age' myth is back, and it's still wrong | Dana Nuccitelli 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In fact, our CO2 emissions will delay the onset of the next ice age by at least 100,000 years, according to a 2016 paper published in Nature. The climate change misinformation at a top museum is not a conservative conspiracy 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The close of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago, was a time of rapid climate change, as is the present. The Arctic dilemma 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z During that period Earth’s climate cooled and glaciers grew, but there was no full-blown ice age. Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Assuming Gebbie’s model is correct, the deep Pacific will continue to cool for decades as the little ice age water arrives. The deep Pacific is a climate time capsule from the ‘little ice age,’ 19th century ship records show 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Then, twenty thousand years ago, during the peak of the last ice age, sea levels were four hundred feet lower. The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Like the Saint-Léonard Cavern, these tectonic passageways were formed during the last ice age from the pressure of the glacier above. Canadian amateurs discover ice age caves 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z |
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