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Hace 4 días · Read science articles on the ice age, glaciation and climatology. Discover the connection between ice ages and global warming.
Hace 16 horas · Global average temperatures show that the Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide period but a regional phenomenon occurring near the end of a long temperature decline that preceded recent global warming. [1] The Little Ice Age ( LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. [2]
10 de abr. de 2024 · The Pleistocene Epoch is best known as a time during which extensive ice sheets and other glaciers formed repeatedly on the landmasses and has been informally referred to as the “Great Ice Age.” The timing of the onset of this cold interval, and thus the formal beginning of the Pleistocene Epoch, was a matter of substantial ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · Little Ice Age (LIA), climate interval that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century, when mountain glaciers expanded at several locations, including the European Alps, New Zealand, Alaska, and the southern Andes, and mean annual temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere.
17 de abr. de 2024 · New research led by the University of Washington analyzes the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, to better understand the relationship between CO2 and global temperature.
Hace 5 días · For now, the team has only drilled small cores of the 6-million-year-old ice, so its age is all they know, Brook says. They’re heading back to Antarctica next austral summer to retrieve larger samples. But last season, Brook and his colleagues did manage to drill jumbo-size cores of ice as old as 3 million years.
14 de abr. de 2024 · Ötzi, an ancient mummified human body that was found by a German tourist, Helmut Simon, on the Similaun Glacier in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, on September 19, 1991. Radiocarbon-dated to 3300 bce, the body is that of a man aged 25 to 35 who had been about 1.6 metres (5 feet 2 inches) tall and had ...
