Buried Louisiana marshes show North America, not Antarctica, fueled the world’s dramatic sea level surge 9,000 years ago.

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists ...

Large changes in global sea level, fueled by fluctuations in ice sheet growth and decay, occurred throughout the last ice age ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has investigated what influenced the expansion of the ...

Castillo-Llarena, A., Prange, M. & Rogozhina, I. Orbital and millennial-scale forcing of the Patagonian Ice Sheet throughout the Last Glacial Cycle. Nat Commun 16, 8776 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038 ...

Both in North America and Switzerland, one of the biggest factors driving glacier melt was extremely high summer temperatures. A heat wave in June 2021 in the U.S. and western Canada resulted in huge ...

A Tulane University-led study published in Nature Geoscience reveals that melting North American ice sheets were the primary driver of dramatic sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, ...