Little Ice Age

A University of Colorado Boulder-led study appears to answer contentious questions about the onset and cause of Earth’s Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures that began after the Middle Ages and lasted into the late 19th century. (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

 

Central Baffin Island (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

 

Baffin Island (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

Research camp (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

Study researchers Gifford Miller (left), Kurt Refsnider (center) and Chance Anderson (right) on Baffin Island (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

North Arm (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

 

North Arm outlet glacier (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

CU-Boulder researchers Kurt Refsnider (left) and Gifford Miller (right) search for dead vegetation (Photo courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

A depiction of the 1683 Winter Frost Fair on the River Thames in London (Image courtesy of Gifford Miller/University of Colorado Boulder)

North Arm outlet glacier

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