A team of researchers in Romania is using ancient records dating back to 16th-century Transylvania to investigate how the ...

In the throes of the Little Ice Age, Europe faced extreme winters, and even the mighty Napoleon succumbed to its icy grasp during the ill-fated Russian invasion. But as Mount Tambora erupted in ...

The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

Between roughly 1550 and 1880, Britain was in the grip of what has become popularly known as the Little Ice Age — a period of intensely cold winters. Forget treetops glistening, frosts were ...

Bond, G. et al. "The North Atlantic's 1-2 kyr climate rhythm: Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard/Oeschger Cycles and the Little Ice Age," In Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial ...

“When we look at Ice Age 10, we can very clearly predict when Ice Age 9, 8, 7 and 6, and so on, all happened,” Nuber said. Researchers came up with this method by looking at “astronomical ...