A series of extreme droughts caused by the "Little Ice Age" contributed to the Ming Dynasty's ultimate demise. The Little Ice ...

The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive? The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive? The ocean has a 'conveyer belt.' Here's why it's important. The ocean has a 'conveyer ...

Disney and 20th Century Animation shared that a sixth Ice Age sequel is officially in the works, with cast members Ray Romano ...

For a long time scientists have tried to understand why glaciers in the Alps began retreating in the late 19th century - ending the Little Ice Age - even though slightly cooler temperatures than ...

Research into England’s Little Ice Age during the 16th and 17th centuries has unearthed more than 1,800 unique pieces of weather observations.

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Imagine a winter so severe and prolonged that the River Thames in central London completely froze over with ice so thick there was a "carnival on the water". It surely must have been the highlight ...

Bond, G. et al. "The North Atlantic's 1-2 kyr climate rhythm: Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard/Oeschger Cycles and the Little Ice Age," In Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial ...

Scientists have compared data from the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, and modern records to see what happened to ...

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial ... as a lake freezes typically contains very little sediment, and it is small stuff—no boulders.