Years ago Quote by Nicholas Wade

“Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid…

— Philip K. Chapman

“Paleoecology teaches that refugia are not only physical places, but they also represent bottlenecks along a timeline. Large populations of trees, insects, birds, and…

— Ryan Emanuel

“The first migration out of Africa, the one that gave rise to both Europeans and East Asians, eventually reached Sahul, the ancient Ice Age…

— Nicholas Wade

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's…

— Bill Kurtis

As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice.…

— Dario Robleto

“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch – suffered…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

— Patrick Süskind

“When Glacier Park was established in 1910, it had about 150 glaciers. Today, with human activities spewing carbon dioxide and methane as if we…

— Douglas Chadwick

The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According…

— Alex Shoumatoff

“Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth…

— James Luceno

“Early Arctic explorers made this same crucial error. They excitedly envisioned the place and came to it fortified by their own cultural assumptions. The…

— Zack Eswine