Without human-induced climate change, Earth may have been on track to plunge into another glacial period within 11,000 years. This long-term forecast of the planet’s “natural” climate is ...

Low atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during glacial periods must have been accompanied by changes in surface-ocean carbonate chemistry. But it is unclear whether concurrent changes in the ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

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

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

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in the region shows that humans lived on the Tibetan Plateau before and after ...

During the glacial period about 20,000 years ago, the ocean surface was about 100 meters lower than today. In areas of eastern Tokyo, such as the wards of Katsushika, Edogawa and Koto, deep ...

The banks of the St. Lawrence near Brockville, and all the Thousand Islands, have been rounded and montonnee by glacial abrasion during tlie period when all this mass of ice was moving southward ...