Learn what the rocks in Iceland tell researchers about climate conditions at the time of the Roman Empire's collapse.

Glaciers are some of our planet’s oldest inhabitants, but during several icy periods, they covered much more of Earth’s ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

A recent study on the ancient glaciers of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island has revealed important insights about how past climate ...

A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ... Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12 ...

Human civilization has developed and is adapted to this post-ice-age environment. Since 2000, the annual rate of glacial melting has risen dramatically, from less than 100 gigatons to more than ...

New research reveals that post-ice age sea levels rose over a meter per century during key periods and totaled about 38 ...

Vast mountain glacial flows created in the ice age in the US, Canada, Scandinavia, Central Europe, New Zealand and beyond, will be lucky to see the end of the century say researchers who warn of ...

The prehistoric skis were buried underneath the glacier for over a thousand years before researchers made the discovery ...

Glacial archaeologists have recently discovered ... "For example, during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (535–660 CE)—a period of significant climatic cooling—local agriculture in the ...