Learn more about the Younger Dryas event, an ancient climate change catastrophe that’s typically attributed to glacial ...

Beneath the ocean floor, researchers have found signs of a major disaster that some have tied to the mythical lost city of ...

A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a ...

An international team of scientists has found what may be the first geochemical evidence from ocean sediments in the depths ...

Core samples collected near Greenland support the controversial theory a comet impact 12,800 years ago caused global ...

Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a ...

In a nutshell A massive supernova explosion 13,000 years ago may have triggered the Younger Dryas ice age by damaging Earth’s ozone layer with deadly radiation. The cosmic blast likely ...

During the Younger Dryas, mainland western Scotland was covered by an ice cap. A smaller cap may have covered parts of Skye, and conditions there must have been exceptionally hostile.

According to Dr Warken, the new age determination shows that the eruption took place about 150 years prior to the Younger Dryas cold period.