Scientists in Ireland are studying the ancient British-Irish Ice Sheet in an attempt to better understand the future, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reported. Their work involves mapping and ...

International team of researchers reveals for the first time a mechanism to explain pronounced climate variability during the last ice age Although humankind is responsible for the current global ...

During the last ice age, the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, the climate in the North Atlantic underwent much greater multi-centennial variability than it does in the present warm period.