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Holocene

A researcher collects a sample of bedrock from the Queshque Glacier in the Peruvian Andes Mountains. The samples show tropical glaciers have retreated to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years based on cosmogenic nuclide measurements of recently exposed bedrock, an international team of scientists, led by Boston college researchers, reports in the journal Science.

Andean glaciers have retreated to lowest levels in 11,700 years

Illustration of critters impacted by Earth's warmth

Before global warming, was the Earth cooling down or heating up?

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