New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...

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Scientists have determined that over the last million years, land formations created by a massive ice sheet have been ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions. During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in ...

Carbon dating suggests the peat is around 11,000 years old, from the tail-end of the last ice age. Why was the sea level so low at that point? PETER BALSON: During the maximum period of glaciation ...