Jun 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska has suggested that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place...

Apr 6, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of scientists has established a clear cause-and-effect relationship between rising levels of carbon dioxide and global warming that ended the last...

Feb 1, 2012 by News Staff

A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The moss Physcomitrella...

Sep 2, 2011 by James Freeman

The extinction of Ice Age giants such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats has been widely studied, but much less is...