Ice Age camp reveals hunter-gatherers reached Italy thousands of years earlier than previously thought

A fresh excavation of the eastern deposit at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near today's French–Italian border, has pushed back ...

The next ice age began 2,000 years ago. Then, in 1960, humans abruptly ended it.

Ancient moss frozen beneath Baffin Island’s ice tells the story of a glaciation humans snuffed out.
Ancient Origins

Hundreds of Ice Age Engravings Found in a Catalan Cave That Tourists Walked Past for Decades

A newly published study in Antiquity describes 280 Paleolithic motifs, including 55 animals, scratched into the walls of Cova ...

Ice-age abrupt climate shifts were not as fast as thought, new study finds

New high-resolution speleothem records from China and India, together with isotope-enabled climate models, show that abrupt ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Two Thousand Years Ago, a New Ice Age Began—but Human-Caused Climate Change Recently Reversed It, According to New Research

All that's left of a gargantuan ice sheet that once covered nearly 30 percent of North America is a Delaware-size ice cap in Canada. Scientists have found that the ice cap began to expand around 2,000 ...
CNN

Humans accidentally canceled the next ice age — but it’s no reason to celebrate, scientists say

A shrinking ice cap in Arctic Canada tells a striking story of how humans may have halted the planet’s next ice age by ...
ZME Science

Overlooked Ice Age Cave Art in Spain Could Be the World’s Oldest Cartoon

Ancient cave engravings in Spain suggest Ice Age artists may have experimented with animation over 19,000 years ago.

[Ice Age] The Dangerous Misconception That "If Global Warming Prevents an Ice Age, Isn't That Lucky?"

Summary:The 2,000-year-old plants exposed from the Barnes Ice Cap in Canada were definitive physical evidence that the Earth ...

Ice Age Artists Left 280 Engravings in This Spanish Cave. Visitors Walked Right Past Them

The Cova de la Font Major in Catalonia has long been a popular attraction for tourists, scientists, and looters. The cave is ...
New Atlas

Global warming may have prevented a return to the ice age 2,000 years ago

Earth’s persistently frozen poles mean the last ice age never really came to an end. What we think of as the mammoth-romping, Neanderthal-stomping chapter of geological history was technically a ...