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Scientists make alarming discovery in samples from last Ice Age: 'You can't model the future unless you understand what happened'

Studies of historic ice sheets, such as Kelley and Jackson's, allow researchers to learn what caused them to collapse. Ice ...

Large fluctuations in sea level throughout the last ice age challenge understanding of past climate

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

North American ice sheets drove dramatic sea-level rise at end of last ice age, study finds

Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...
Ars Technica

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How geoscientists in Ireland use Ice Age boulders to forecast climate change

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...