When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Researchers had long assumed that central European hippos went extinct at the onset of the Weichselian glaciation.

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has investigated what influenced the expansion of the ...

Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...

Hippos survived in icy Europe far longer than thought, revealing surprising warmth and resilience during Ice Age.

Just 20,000 years ago, coastlines stretched farther, whole land bridges connected continents, and massive glaciers reshaped the map. This is the world as it looked during the last Ice Age.

Castillo-Llarena, A., Prange, M. & Rogozhina, I. Orbital and millennial-scale forcing of the Patagonian Ice Sheet throughout the Last Glacial Cycle. Nat Commun 16, 8776 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038 ...

The Western New York Land Conservancy is pleased to announce the opening of its newest preserve, the Floating Fen Preserve in ...

An ice core from Mont Blanc’s Dôme du Goûter contains a unique, intact archive of past climatic conditions. An international ...

Some predict the glaciers will vanish in two centuries, which could upset the volcanoes below, causing them to erupt more frequently, more violently or both. Michelle Parks of the Icelandic ...

A study of geological records reveals that sea levels are rising at their fastest rate in 4,000 years, underscoring the ...