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Antarctica. Photo: depositphotos.com

The time capsule that hides in the ice of Antarctica

An international research expedition is currently drilling in the depths of the Antarctic ice, with the aim of finding out why the ice ages significantly lengthened over a million years ago. Their findings may also help in understanding the rise in global temperatures that we are experiencing today
Dr. Dafna Langut collects sediment samples from the excavation at the Jordan Steps for microscopic examination of plant remains. Photo credit: Prof. Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai Academic College.

Dramatic climate changes at the end of the Ice Age enabled the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farmers

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Plant remains have helped researchers reconstruct the climate in the Land of Israel at the end of the last ice age
The computer simulation of the groundwater level in the eastern aquifer of the Dead Sea. Photo: Yehuda Levy, Hebrew University

Ancient and large springs in the Jordan Valley were significant for the development of the agricultural revolution in the world

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A comet hit the earth. Illustration: shutterstock

About 12.8 years ago, a comet fragment caused 10% of the Earth's surface to burn

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Cave painting depicting a mammoth hunt. Photo: shutterstock.

Why did the mammoths become extinct?

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Global salinity and heat cycle

Is Europe freezing?

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How will global warming cause the world to freeze?

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Evidence is accumulating for the theory of the asteroid that exploded 13 thousand years ago

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Mars is coming out of an ice age

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