To compare those two time periods with the present day, ... The researchers conclude that we narrowly missed an ice age off-ramp in the past few thousand years because CO 2 was just a touch too high.

The oldest known ice in Western Europe lay at the summit of the French Alps, with the Mont Blanc glacier acting as an archive for climate data.

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

In a nutshell Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that reached temperatures of 600°C—comparable to modern ...

During the present ice age, glaciers have advanced and retreated over 20 times, often blanketing North America with ice. Our climate today is actually a warm interval between these many periods of ...

Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret ...

The planet was on track to have an ice age in some 50,000 years, which would have already resulted in an unusually long period of warmth. Increasing levels of man-made greenhouse gasses have ...

The Quaternary Ice Age has lasted 2.5 million years so far. It's 10,000 to 15,000-year warm patches are separated by glacial periods that last several times as long as.

Just beyond the traffic and palm trees of Wilshire Boulevard, hidden beneath the shadows of nondescript office buildings, lie the tar-slicked bones of many thousand long-dead creatures.

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. ... July 15, 2021 — Earth's climate was relatively stable for a long period of time.

The climate has been generally cooling ever since. Antarctic ice sheets started growing 25 million years ago. In the last 2.5 million years, the Earth entered the period of Ice Ages [the geological ...