Scientists have shown that a melting ice sheet in Scandinavia contributed to the Younger Dryas - a roughly thousand-year-long cold snap that took place between 12,880 and 11,650 years ago. The abrupt ...

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 ...

The impact that carved the crater is too old to have caused the Younger Dryas cold snap Pebbles at the edge of Greenland’s ice sheet, shown here in 2019, contain zircon crystals that were ...

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.

The Younger Dryas cooling 12,700 years ago is one of the most abrupt climate changes observed in Northern Hemisphere palaeoclimate records 1,2,3,4.Annually laminated lake sediments are ideally ...

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 ...

In a nutshell A massive supernova explosion 13,000 years ago may have triggered the Younger Dryas ice age by damaging Earth’s ozone layer with deadly radiation. The cosmic blast likely ...

“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 ...

The Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current that originates in the Florida Straits between Florida and Cuba, before skirting the U.S. East Coast and Canada and crossing the North Atlantic to Europe.