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Ice Age, interrupted

Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the advantageous trend in solar radiation of our current age.

Detection of huge carbon burp that helped end ice age

Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide ‘burp’ that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age.

Britain’s island heritage: half a million years of history

The latest installment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

Prehistoric migrants spread farming in Europe

Central and northern Europe’s first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.

Forgotten rival to Pepys finally reaches bookshop shelves

A 900,000-word eyewitness account of life in Restoration England, viewed as a “rival” to Pepys' diary but virtually forgotten since the 1700s, is being published for the first time.