The Last Glacial Period was characterised by dramatic shifts in climate and ocean circulation that have deeply influenced global carbon cycles and climate variability. Evidence from sediment cores, ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. 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 ...

Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are increasing ...

Climate changes usually happens over long periods of time, but during the last glacial period, extreme fluctuations in temperature occurred within just a few years. Researchers have now been able to ...

What the Scientific Record Actually Shows Recent research has identified predictable patterns in Earth's climate changes ...

Arctic poppy (Papaver radicatum) flowering on rock, Disko-Bay, West-Greenland, Greenland. The heart of Greenland has recently been green. A two-mile-deep ice core from the very center of Greenland’s ...

Rieneke Weij receives funding from the University of Cape Town and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Jon Woodhead receives funding from the Australian Research Council Josephine Brown receives funding ...

We have been in the quaternary, also known as the Pleistocene, glaciation period for about 2½ million years. The maximum extent of the ice sheets occurred between 26,000 and 18,000 years ago. The ...