We pieced together the most precise records of major climate events from thousands of years ago. Here’s what we found
- Written by Ellen Corrick, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
Between 115,000 and 11,700 years ago, the Earth would have been almost unrecognisable. Massive ice-sheets covered northern Europe and northern Asia, and about half of North America, and global sea-levels were as much as 130 meters lower than today.
In this period, known as the “last glacial period”, the climate was much cooler and drier...





