Groundwater gases from 6 continents reveal more extreme land temperatures 20,000 years ago than previously known
By Kala Hunter Medill Reports How sensitive is the climate? This is the question that prompted marine and geochemist Alan Seltzer, a Ph.D. assistant scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and climate scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography to look at land temperatures at the end of the last ice age. While computational models have […]
A teen’s fall and death during the last ice age
By Tiffany Chen Medill Reports Yucatan Peninsula. Even the tropical jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula reveal traces of the last ice age. The remains of them mammoth animals of the Late Pleistocene are safe and sound, not buried but submerged in the water-filled chambers in underground caves. Cave divers discovered the skeletons of ice age animals […]
