A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc it wrought was to the ...

Heinrich events, in which large masses of icebergs rapidly broke free from ice sheets during the last ice age, are thought to have influenced global climate by interrupting ocean circulation patterns ...

Evidence for Heinrich events is found as distinct layers of coarse glacial debris in ocean-sediment records 2. Such particles were incorporated at the base of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and were then ...

image: The research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN leaving the harbor of St. John’s (Canada). As a participant on Expedition MSM 39 (2014), Lars Max, along with other researchers, obtained the sample material ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – During the last ice age, massive icebergs periodically broke off from an ice sheet covering a large swath of North America and discharged rapidly melting ice into the North ...

Around 16,500 years ago, global climate plunged into chaos during the Heinrich Event H1—massive droughts, collapsing lake systems and arid zones from Africa to Asia. But did this push humans into ...

Some Heinrich events – massive iceberg surges into the North Atlantic that were thought to have weakened the global ocean conveyor belt circulation and sent Earth’s climate into a deep freeze – may ...

Last month we reported on the inability of climate models to predict the severity of rapid climate change events. One of these events, the collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation ...