as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from melting glaciers ...

It slowly shriveled from its peak size at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, but then that melt rate sped up about 10 years ago, according to a study in Tuesday's Nature Communications.

Huge expanses of ice are melting alarmingly fast ... Ice sheets once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere during the ice age. Now, Earth has just two ice sheets: one covers most of Greenland ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 ...

"Scaring sticks are very concrete evidence for where reindeer were hunted during the Iron Age, and for the extent ... finds that were once lost on the ice often melt out again.

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...

Melting ice flooded into the oceans ... underwent a period of intense volcanic activity at the end of the last Ice Age, which has since quieted down. Enhanced spreading at the Mid-Atlantic ...

and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of ...