During the last glacial period, ice sheets covered North America, northern Europe ... or "desalinization" of the ocean's saltwater. In 2021, news broke that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

During the Last Glacial Maximum, which lasted from about 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, ice sheets covered large areas of North America ... human footprints found in 2021, suggest that humans ...

The work confirms a 2021 study’s findings ... they arrived from the north about 13,000 years ago, as the ice sheets across North America were retreating. (The Clovis are named after a town ...

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Following up a on study in 2021 of tracks ... place people deep in the North American continent at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum. During that time, ice sheets up to two miles thick ...

Scientists call these episodes Heinrich Events when they came from the Laurentide Ice Sheet. "Today it does not exist. But it used to cover northern North America and was kilometers thick in New ...

During cold (glacial) cycles, ice sheets sprawled across Antarctica, Greenland and North America, locking away water and lowering sea levels. In warmer (interglacial) times, the ice retreated and ...