The findings underline the urgency for humankind to pivot away from fossil fuels. Scientists make stunning discovery about ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally offer answers. A team at the University of Arizona has ...

Melting Glaciers at the End of the Ice Age May Have Sped Up Continental Drift, Fueled Volcanic Eruptions Apr. 23, 2025 — Scientists believe that the motion of ... during the last cold phase ...

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12 people in total, some of them ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent ... for billions of years, torn Earth’s continents apart and crushed them together. According to the team’s ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ... present the first record of ocean heat content during the ends of the last four ice ages and the subsequent warm periods, enabling the team to ...

Hominids have been using fire for at least a million years — but scientists have found that human fire-wielding skills during our planet's last great Ice Age became so advanced that they would ...

Even with these new findings, numerous questions remain, particularly about why there is such scant evidence of fireplaces dating back to the last ice age. The large fireplace during the excavation.

"Was most of the evidence destroyed by the ice-age-typical, alternating freezing and thawing of the soil?" asks Murphree. "Or did people not find enough fuel during the Last Glacial Maximum?

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice ...