Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

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

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...

The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Sea levels rose rapidly, and the continents achieved their present-day outline. When the temperatures drop, ice sheets spread from the Poles and ...