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Julia Hager
A well-kept mystery seems to have been solved: During the last interglacial period, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet apparently melted completely, causing global sea levels to rise by several meters.
Antarctica warmed and the rest of the world also felt the effects of massive calving events during the last ice age, only Greenland remained unaffected.
Heiner Kubny
Canadian Yukon paleontologists have unveiled an unusual find from the Goldfields: a mummified Arctic gopher or ground squirrel from the Ice Age.
Ice ages in Antarctica occurred not only every 100,000 years, but at much shorter intervals, according to recent research.
Dr. Michael Wenger
During the ice ages, it was not iron-rich dust and its fertilizing effect that provided CO2 storage in the Antarctic Ocean, but other mechanisms.
Since the last ice age, the Antarctic ice sheet has lost huge amounts of ice several times in a very short period of time, a new study now shows.
New archaeological finds of bone material from a cave system provide evidence that large mammals lived in northern Norway during the Ice Age.
The analysis of fossil teeth provides important insights into the Arctic flora during the Pleistocene.
During glacial periods, the sea level falls, because vast quantities of water are stored in the massive inland glaciers. New calculations have resolved the discrepancy.
The Arctic Ocean was covered by up to 900 m thick shelf ice and was filled entirely with freshwater at least twice in the last 150,000 years.
