Climate headlines swing wildly between catastrophic warming and unexpected freezing scenarios. So where exactly does the ...

The story of how the last Ice Age ended is being rewritten from the bottom up, as new records etched into the sea floor ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last Ice Age.

December 2025 / Kiel. A study by an international team involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water during a major warming phase ...

TOPSHOT - Icebergs float in Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland on July 18, 2022 as captured on a NASA Gulfstream V plane while on an airborne mission to measure melting Arctic sea ice. New ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (Nov. 8, 2025) - A recently published study in Science challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth’s ice ages. Led by an international ...

New research reveals how ocean warming triggered the large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream ...

Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, buttressing a dozen major glaciers and slowing their flow into the ocean, may be surprisingly sensitive to warming. Several thousand years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf and ...

Course description: Investigates major problems in the study and understanding of Quaternary climate variation, in seminar format. Each year one major topic will be addressed, such as: the physics and ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time human societies became ...