During the last ice age, the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the climate in the North Atlantic underwent much greater multi-centennial variability than it does in the present warm period.

International team of researchers reveals for the first time a mechanism to explain pronounced climate variability during the last ice age Although humankind is responsible for the current global ...

Replica plaquettes were placed next to a fire to see how ambient light made stone carvings of animals appear to move. Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE CC-BY 4.0 Survival wasn’t easy in Ice Age Europe.

A new study combines data from ancient shells with advanced climate modeling to shed light on how El Ni o weather patterns might change in a warming world. The last ice age peaked around 20,000 years ...