ice age
Apparently, New Zealand's Ice Age Was a Great Time For Kiwi
The secrets of New Zealand's ice age have been hiding in kiwi DNA.
What Woolly Mammoth Extinction Tells Us About Our Rapidly-Changing Future
They died of thirst on a remote Alaskan island.
That Massive Sinkhole in Ottawa Might Be Due to ‘Quick Clay'
City officials haven’t yet pointed to a firm cause.
Researchers to European Islamophobes: Your Ancestors Were Migrants Who Settled in Belgium
Since the end of the last Ice Age, migration and population turnover — sometimes driven by changes in the climate — have been common features in Europe.
Global Warming Could Delay the Next Ice Age by 100,000 Years
A new study shows the extraordinary extent to which anthropogenic global warming is altering the naturally occurring changes of the Earth's climate.
Humans Are Off the Hook for the Mastodon Extinction
We may be pretty talented at edging out other species. But the mastodon was not one of them.
Finding Ice Age Human Remains Is Really Hard
Archaeologist Ben Potter started as a graphic designer. Now he is excavating some of the most spectacular specimens in Alaska.
Global Warming Is Pushing the Next Ice Age Back By Tens of Thousands of Years
The Earth has natural cycles of glaciation that we can pin down by looking at Earth's orbital patterns around the sun. The ice goes in, the ice goes out, as the Earth heats and cools naturally. When it comes in, we have an ice age. We've been in a warm...