Researchers unearthed an ancient glacier in the Canadian Arctic that could help reveal Earth's climatic history.

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We currently live in an interglacial period called the Holocene epoch that began around 11,700 years ago. Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years.It is often ...

Romania’s Grăunceanu site dates hominin activity to 1.95 million years Evidence includes butchered animal remains and defleshing marks Findings push back the timeline for human migration into Europe ...

While researchers lose sleep over the rapidly melting ice sheets in the poles, studies suggest it is how history is repeating ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.