The last Ice Age excavated bedrock equivalent to 500 times Mount Everest Researchers have calculated how much volume the last Ice Age eroded in Norway and northern Europe.
World's oldest DNA: Scientists discover 2-million-year-old remains of plants and animals Genetic material from the elephant relative mastodon, cedar and spruce has now been discovered in a warmer Greenland of yore. It is the oldest DNA ever found.
For a long time people thought fossils were animals and dragons drowned in Noah’s flood. Then scientists discovered the Ice Age In a new book, Reidar Müller describes the history of the climate and the people who pieced it together.
The plan was to renovate a laundry room. But then bones from a 12 000 year old polar bear showed up This is the story of how the best-preserved Ice Age polar bear in the world ended up at the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger in the 1980s. Norway's first Stone Age people may have lived alongside this polar bear.
These were the first plants to appear in northern Norway after the last ice age A large DNA study tells us how nature reacted when the climate changed. The knowledge gained will be used to create better models of what could happen in the future.
Norway's largest ‘fjord’ is only a few hundred thousand years old The Norwegian trench is a giant underwater ‘fjord’ formed by an enormous glacier.
The "missing link" that triggered the ice ages Melting icebergs from Antarctica are the key, according to a new study.
What actually started the Little Ice Age? It all may have started with sea ice, and the changes may have happened all by themselves without the influence of volcanoes or the Sun, researchers behind a new study say.
Scientists are seeing ice age beginnings for very first time Some fantastic 3D images have emerged from the bottom of the North Sea, making it possible to document the beginning of the ice ages 2.6 million years ago.
Chinese and Norwegian scientists have drilled an almost 600-meter deep hole into the Tibetan Plateau. This gives them a window into the past. Among their findings is that ice age cycles suddenly became stronger just over 600,000 years ago. Researchers were also struck by how little plant life has changed over the past 1.7 million years.
Reindeer genes show clear influence from last Ice Age The genes of modern reindeer help scientists understand how past climates affected the species - and give clues as to how reindeer will handle future climate change.
Glacier reveals 5,400-year-old Stone Age arrow The oldest artefact ever found in a Scandinavian snowdrift glacier has researchers abuzz. “We’ve never seen 5,000-year-old objects melt out of the ice before,” says an archaeologist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Why Svalbard is rising OPINION: New measurements explain why the uplift of the Svalbard islands is larger than the models predict.