Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

There is even potential for yet older ice, dating back to the pre-Quaternary period (2.58 million years ago) to be discovered within these base sections of the core, with dating of the rocks ...

The Los Chocoyos supereruption in Central America, occurring approximately 79,500 years ago, was one of the most significant volcanic events of the Quaternary period ... potentially contributing to an ...

The findings offer a rare window into the lives of Ice Age people. The presence of children ... The study was published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances.

From 2020 to 2024 he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Quaternary Science (Wiley ... and human cultures around the Mediterranean Sea since the end of the last ice age. It examines how the region’s ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

“When we look at Ice Age 10, we can very clearly predict when Ice Age 9, 8, 7 and 6, and so on, all happened,” Nuber said. Researchers came up with this method by looking at “astronomical ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...