Ice Age
Sciences & Technology
A new thermometer for studying our past climate
Researchers have a new tool to understand our climate history, and how different regions may have responded to past global climate change
Sciences & Technology
The rapid climate changes of the last glacial period
Using climate records of the last glacial period from stalagmites, new research confirms that climate changes happened at the same time across the Northern Hemisphere and into the southern tropics
Sciences & Technology
What causes an ice age to end?
In order to know why an ice age ends, we need to know when it ended. Now, new research is working to solve one of the enigmas in palaeoclimatology
Environment
Discovered: The Drowned Apostles
Scientists have discovered a range of ancient limestone stacks, just offshore from their iconic cousins, the Twelve Apostles on Australia’s south coast