Prior to what has come to be known as the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT), ice ages tended to last on average 40,000 years. After the MPT, they spanned up to 100,000 years.

Deep in the frozen north of Russia's Sakha Republic lies a place where time is being reversed and a once extinct environment ...

There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases ... The last major cold period was known as the Pleistocene, started 2.6 million years ago and ended just 10,000 years ...

Although the D-O climate cycles have now been found in many other climate proxy records around the globe (Voelker 2002), the reason why Earth's climate was so much more variable during the last ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

If a change in climate then reduced the availability ... This gels with recent evidence that shows Pleistocene climate changes were less dramatic in the southern hemisphere, compared to the ...

In this multidisciplinary project, our aim is to combine the methods and data of archeology, biogeography and climate modeling and to find out how the human ecological niche has changed during the ...

And all in the name of fighting climate change. The team behind Pleistocene Park believe that recreating the ecosystem of the Pleistocene era in Siberia could have an important impact on the ...

I wish to respond to John Sernett’s Aug. 26 letter in the American regarding climate change. It seems Mr. Sernett believes his claims and writes in good faith. I took his advice to do my own ...

That, they add, suggests it’s worth testing the teeth of other large Pleistocene mammals to ... literacy and ensure that our response to climate change is informed by science.

More information: Louise Martin et al, Late Pleistocene-Holocene mammalian body size change in Jordan's Azraq Basin: A case for climate driven species distribution shifts, Quaternary Science ...