Melting ice sheets in North America played a far greater role in driving global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age ...

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

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

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 ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

Gates of the Arctic might be North America's most remote national park, but it's home to some extraordinary animals.

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.

The first whale sanctuary in North America is one step closer to becoming a reality. The Nova Scotia government has granted a ...