In a nutshell Scientists have discovered that Neanderthals not only survived but thrived during one of Earth’s harshest cold ...

During the Ice Age, not only was the landscape of the Earth drastically different from what it is today, but so were the animals you'd find walking along side our ancestors. Just a few thousand years ...

Researchers have discovered huge landforms deep beneath the North Sea that suggest the region was swallowed by a giant ice sheet toward the middle of the last ice age. The scientists captured ...

Instead of challenging wildfire with tamed fire, modern societies fight landscape fire with the counterforce ... the waning decades of the Little Ice Age. This havoc inspired the federal ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of significant cooling ... Such icy conditions had a marked imprint on the landscape and continue to the present day. New research, published in Earth and Planetary ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).