When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

Rocks carried from Greenland to Iceland by icebergs add to evidence that the climate in Europe got a lot colder ... called the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The cause of this event is unclear ...

Other parts of Europe were still cooling when the Little Ice Age's effects began to escalate, and temperatures dropped. But in 16th century Transylvania, hot weather was mentioned much more than ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed ... the mass migrations that reshaped Europe in this period.” Tom Gernon, professor ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...

This pretty corner of Italy has faced many difficulties over the last year due to earthquakes but it hasn’t stopped people from living their day to day lives in their homes. The Phlegraean ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

In Russia’s Yakutia region, mammoths and other ice-age creatures once roamed the land. Now, tens of thousands of years later, divers are searching beneath the ice for their bones. Yakutia ...