The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has experienced numerous times. These periods are marked by significant drops in ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

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Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation ... may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation ...

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth's climate, stretching back more than a million years.

published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has considered how the Mont-Blanc massif in France has responded to changing environmental conditions since the termination of the Little Ice Age ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...