Last Updated: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 14:23
Plants that were frozen during the "Little Ice Age" centuries ago are sprouting new growth, a group of scientists from the University of Alberta have revealed.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 12:01
About 12,800 years ago when the Earth was warming and emerging from the last ice age, a dramatic and anomalous event occurred that abruptly reversed climatic conditions back to near-glacial state.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 16:39
Woolly mammoths - the gigantic cousins of modern day elephants - may have died as a result of climate change following a major cosmic impact near the end of the Ice Age.
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 15:36
A new study looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.
Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013, 15:32
Short, sharp fluctuations in the Earth`s climate throughout the last ice age may have stopped trees from establishing themselves in Europe and northern Asia, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:15
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that dietary flexibility may have been an important factor giving wolves and bears an edge over saber-toothed cats and cave lions.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 15:15
Scientists have unveiled the `super-language` used by our Ice-Age ancestors to communicate in Europe 15,000 years ago.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:32
A dwarf baleen whale from Northern California avoided extinction far longer than previously thought and well into Ice Age, researchers, detailing its fossil, have found.
Last Updated: Saturday, March 30, 2013, 14:01
As Britain prepares to shiver for at least another month, a leading scientist has predicted that the world was heading for another Ice Age.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 10:40
Ice ages wiped out rich plant diversity in Australia, proving that extinction, instead of evolution, influences bio-diversity, says a new research.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 13:25
Bucking the overall global warming trend, Alaska may actually be heading for an ice age with scientists reporting a steady temperature decline in the snow covered US state.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 10, 2012, 13:37
Mankind’s emissions of carbon dioxide and the resulting temperature increase could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age, a new research has suggested.
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