the ice age

Human remains discovered in the Maszycka Cave dating back 18,000 years. (Credit: Antonio Rodríguez-Hidal, IAM (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura))

18,000-year-old human bones reveal disturbing signs of cannibalism

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New research in a cave in southern Poland reveals signs of autopsy and burial rituals from the Ice Age
"Floating drilling platform for extracting lake sediment cores, Alaska." Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Weihan Jia

Global warming and mass extinctions: What can we learn from plants from the last ice age?

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Innovative methods of analyzing ancient DNA reveal how warming affected plant species during the transition from the Ice Age – a clue to what may happen in the future
The Gulf Stream - the hot parts in red and the cold in blue. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Will the climate crisis turn off the strong Gulf Stream?

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New research from University College London reveals that the Gulf Stream was stronger during the last ice age due to stronger winds. Could future climate change weaken the current and affect the
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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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

How will global warming cause the world to freeze?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

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

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Mars is coming out of an ice age

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