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 ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

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 ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive thanks to the melting of glaciers as the last Ice Age came to an end.

Glaciers melting rapidly, fields of moss expanding, water streaming off ice shelves once frozen solid: these are just a few ...

"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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...