ice age

Climate

Iceberg tracks off UK coast could shed light on Antarctica’s future

Uncovering the collapse of the British and Irish ice sheet could help predict what's in store for Antarctica.

28/04/2025

Climate

Has climate change pushed back Earth’s next ice age?

The researchers studied Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble to solve a problem that had stumped scientists for decades.

28/02/2025

Climate

Ancient Antarctic ice reveals ‘unprecedented’ rise in CO2

Ice built up in the Antarctic over hundreds of thousands of years is helping scientists to understand today's climate.

14/05/2024

Culture news

Archaeologists discover 90,000-year-old human footprints in Morocco

In 2022, researchers stumbled upon the footprint site near the northern tip of North Africa while examining boulders at a nearby pocket beach.

31/01/2024

Culture news

Fossil hunters unearth 400,000-year-old mammoth tusk in UK quarry

During a routine visit to a quarry in Cambridgeshire, two palaeontologists made a spectacular discovery: an intact tusk from a Steppe mammoth.

17/07/2023

Climate

Antarctic's oldest ice holds a 1.5m year record of climate change

This ancient record of the Earth’s atmosphere could hold valuable clues about how our planet will respond to rising temperatures.

02/12/2021

Nature

'Stunning' Ice Age lion cub is 28,000 years old, scientists say

The baby Eurasion cave lion found totally preserved in the permafrost, dubbed Sparta, was found 15 metres away from another cub aged at 43,000.

06/08/2021