The Younger Dryas (YD) cold interval is one of ... northward migration of the Gulf Stream oceanic front and a rapid decline of sea-ice cover at the YD termination. Our data indicate a stepwise ...

In a paper that got wide coverage last week ... will be whether the platinum spike turns up in Younger Dryas layers of Antarctic ice cores. Scientists are sure to be looking there soon.

“This range overlaps with that of a platinum peak recorded in the Greenland ice sheet and of the onset of the Younger Dryas climate episode ... All together, the locations cover a huge range ...

The Younger Dryas event, which began approximately 12,900 ... seas show corresponding alternations between an extensive sea-ice cover and melting due to the influx of warm, salty North Atlantic ...

Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice sheets and ... the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis.

The powerful impact that created a mysterious crater at the northwestern edge of Greenland’s ice sheet happened ... struck long before the Younger Dryas cold snap about 13,000 years ago.

Stone tools found on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, are of a style that flourished 12,000 years ago, when the Earth was plunged into a brief period of extreme cooling called the Younger Dryas, after ...

"There are multiple lines of evidence that the AMOC weakened during the Younger Dryas cold interval that punctuated the transition out of the last ice age," the researchers wrote in the study.

Absent the climate-changing effects of agriculture and industry, the world might now be tipping back into an ice age. In short, without the Younger Dryas impact, nearly everything would be different.