The main cause of a rapid global cooling period, known as the Big Freeze or Younger Dryas -- which occurred nearly 13,000 years ago -- has been identified. A new study, has identified a mega-flood ...

Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by a mini ice-age, known by scientists as the Younger Dryas, and nicknamed the 'Big Freeze', which lasted around 1300 years.

An impact crater spotted in 2015 in Greenland is far too old to be connected to the Younger Dryas cold snap from 13,000 years ago, a study suggests.

A Museum researcher's 'midge thermometer' innovation has helped explain why the Earth was plunged into a mini ice age almost 13,000 years ago. Scientists have shown that a melting ice sheet in ...

The Younger Dryas might result from ocean circulation disruptions caused by massive freshwater floods as ice sheets melted. Carbon-14 spikes could stem from intense solar storms rather than ...

The Younger Dryas cold period, the last major cold phase before the Holocene warming, had an extensive impact on terrestrial environments, in western Europe in particular. Indeed, its first ...

Big freezes can happen fast JUST months – that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow ...

Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ancient ocean conditions, scientists think they can forecast changes over the next century.

“This is the way science works and should work,” said Kurt Kjær, a geologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark and codiscoverer of the Hiawatha Crater under the Greenland Ice Sheet. He and ...