Watts and Meier are taking part in the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP), the longest-running glacier research project in North America. In the 1940s, a team of explorers headed by ...

Nicola Muirhead Mile-long, 165-foot-deep Quechee Gorge, known as “Vermont’s Little Grand Canyon,” was formed by glacial melt eroding a ridge 13,000 years ago, during the ice age. Nicola ...

Ice age ancestors used sophisticated fireplaces by creating different hearths to light fires for various purposes.