Why it matters: Learning about how previous shifts in climate impacted our world can ... trapped in ice from the last Ice Age to examine how wildfire activity changed during periods of abrupt ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to ... Reviews of Geophysics 46, 1-39 (2008). Conkright, M. E. World Ocean Atlas 2001: Objective Analyses, Data Statistics, and Figures.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,000 years ago. These abrupt climate change events, known as Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich events ...

The giant ice sheet formed during a period of the last ice age known as the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT) that lasted between 1.3 million and 700,000 years ago. (The ice age itself began ...