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 ...

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

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

An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...

A 12,000-year-old Alpine ice core reveals Europe once endured massive dust storms and sea salt surges—evidence of a radically ...

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

With this knowledge, Barker's team predicted that the next ice age would ordinarily take place in 10,000 years' time. Related: An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here's how ...

The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most famous examples of Paleolithic artwork. Created by the Magdalenians, a late Ice Age society that lived in central Europe between 20,000 and 14,500 ...

This is because the global climate went through a warm period between the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, and the time when these whitebark pines died over 5,000 years ago.