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.

Take the mammoth steppe, for example: during the last ice age, this type of vegetation spread ... the greatest risk of extinction in a warming world: grasses and shrubs are at a higher risk ...

The map was carved in the cave floor and represents a complex water-flow system. Archaeologists believe this could be an ancient hydrological masterpiece — possibly the world’s first 3D model ...

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 ...