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Sep. 13, 2022 Scientists have used centuries-old clam shells to see how the North Atlantic climate system reached a 'tipping point' before the Little Ice ...
Sep. 8, 2022 Eight ice caves in four Austrian federal states: A team of geologists has comprehensively documented the loss and gain of ice in Alpine ice caves over the last 2000 years for the first time. The ...
May 26, 2022 Scientists have finally put to bed a long-standing question over the role of Earth's orbit in driving global ice age ...
Nov. 3, 2023 Past cold periods such as the Little Ice Age were associated with reduced strength of North Atlantic currents and increased surface salinity in the Caribbean. This was accompanied by disturbances in ...
Nov. 18, 2021 After the natural warming that followed the last Ice Age, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off from Antarctica into the Southern Ocean. A new data-model study now shows that ...
Dec. 6, 2022 A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in ...
June 4, 2021 Coral insights into 1,000 years of seasonal changes in the Arabian Sea warn of significant impacts caused by global ...
June 3, 2021 Glaciologists analyzed Antarctic ice cores to understand the continent's air temperatures during the most recent glacial period. The results help understand how the region behaves during a major ...
May 16, 2023 Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded. A ...
Mar. 10, 2022 Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to a ...