Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

"It obviously warmed after the last ice age … but it did stop warming." Rosh then carefully displayed the data that supported what he was saying, via a graph titled "Global Temperature Since the ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

Although the D-O climate cycles have now been found in many other climate proxy records around the globe (Voelker 2002), the reason why Earth's climate was so much more variable during the last ...

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

You could see what the world was like when ice sheets a thousand feet thick blanketed ... give scientists unprecedented views of global climate over the eons. More important, the records allow ...

The last ice age, or glacial period, ended about 11,700 years ago. That transition ushered in the Holocene, an era of relative climate stability which enabled human civilisations to flourish.