At the height of the last Ice Age, enormous ice sheets covered much of North America and northern Europe. Sea levels dropped dramatically, exposing vast stretches of land that are now submerged.

Ice ages are among the most dramatic climate events in Earth’s history. They occur when long-term shifts in climate allow massive glaciers to expand across continents. These changes are influenced by ...

A group of plant viruses that infect many important crops may have origins stretching back tens of thousands of years, long before humans began farming. A new international study suggests that the ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that ...

Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

A Minnesota middle school showed an eighth grade geography class slides telling students that ICE has "harassed" migrants and offered extra credit to middle school students who watched a 19-minute ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...

Archaeologists in Oregon have discovered fossilized animal hide scraps dating back to the Ice Age -- and could be the oldest sewn clothing in humanity. Rosencrance et al., Sci. Adv. 12, eaec2916 A ...

The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression. When ...

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...