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Join Steve Backshall on a journey into the past, using stunning location filming from around the world and breath-taking Virtual Production to unravel the secrets of the Ice Age and how it created the ...

During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between warm periods - sometimes even completely ice-free - and cold ... During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there ...

During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North America and northern Europe (the Laurentide and Fennoscandian ice sheets, respectively).

The warmth of the long summer afternoons of the most recent ice age sent great freshets of glacial meltwater, milky white with suspended rock flour, into Glacial Lake Missoula. Rock flour settled ...