Scientists from the Oregon State University conducted chemical analyses on air bubbles trapped within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core. They discovered that, in the la ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, the Weichselian ...

At the time, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet, which stretched over North America as far south as Pennsylvania, started to recede. Melting ice flooded into the oceans, and sea levels worldwide rose by ...

Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum. North America experienced several glaciations during the Quaternary period, with much of what is now Canada being intermittently covered by ...

Doctoral candidate Karen Williams embarked on computer modeling research to find out about the Earth’s changes after the melting of the Laurentide ice sheet, which once covered Canada and a ...

FARGO — Twenty thousand years ago, at the peak of the last major world glaciation, the Laurentide ice sheet covered our region in ice to a depth of about one mile. The massive glacier may have ...

The Norse settlement would have been subject to two components of sea level change, because it was located on the periphery of the Laurentide Ice Sheet — which covers Canada, the northeastern ...

During one trip to Occom Pond in Hanover, they examined sediment from roughly 8 to 9 meters below the lake floor, dating back to when the Laurentide Ice Sheet receded from the area about 13,000 to ...

As the weight of the Laurentide Ice Sheet was redistributed around the planet, parts of North America began to bounce back up.