Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen’s University, Canada. Gernon, Spencer ... The Late Antique Little Ice Age likely wreaked havoc on a society already weakened by the fall of its capital. Beyond ...

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known woolly mammoth fossil in North America — a 216,000-year-old tooth unearthed along ...

The ice age is thought to have been triggered by three ... associate professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and lead author of the research, said that the team, which ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

These icy giants once blanketed Canada, Siberia, and stretches of northern ... interrupted the warming trend at the end of the last ice age and remains a topic of great interest to climate scientists.