Trajectoires paysagères et crises morphosédimentaires de cônes torrentiels dans la vallée de la Maurienne (Savoie) depuis la fin du Petit Âge glaciaire by Thérèse Hugerot, Laurent Astrade, Christophe Gauchon

“…The use of numerous cadastral, cartographic, photographic and technical archives from between the 18th and 20th centuries has enabled the creation of a geohistorical information system capable of describing and characterising the landscape trajectories of these four cones since the Little Ice Age. The frequency of torrential activity and morphosedimentary crises, the industrialisation of the valley and its rural decline, major road, rail and hydroelectric developments, and the dynamics of urbanisation (and post-war reconstruction) are all factors to be taken into account in reconstructing these unique trajectories. …”
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L’évaluation géoécologique de l’intérêt patrimonial des sols polygonaux hérités en montagne alpine. L’exemple du Col du Noyer (Massif du Dévoluy, Hautes Alpes, France)... by Pierre Pech, Mahé Ajinca, Sylvain Abdulhak, Eric Hustache, Laurent Simon, Brigitte Talon

“…It was located in an unglaciated area during the last Quaternary ice age and suffered the effects of the severe frost. …”
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A time-varying index for agricultural suitability across Europe from 1500–2000 by Alexander Lehner, Dylan Philippe

“…Our index captures not just long-term trends, such as the Little Ice Age, but also short-term climatic shocks. It will empower researchers to explore the interplay between climatic fluctuations and Europe’s agricultural landscape, analyze human responses at a local and regional scale, and foster a deeper understanding of the region’s historical dynamics.…”
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Ekumenizm na drodze przemian: problemy i wyzwania by Tadeusz Kałużny

“…However, this is not a time of stagnation or ice age, as some think, but, rather, time of approaching maturity, of estimating the way covered and recognizing new challenges. …”
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Co-evolution of fish and rice farming by Austroasiatic communities in the Neolithic Era and early documentation of aquaculture in China by Peter Edwards

“…There were increases in temperature and rainfall at the end of the last ice age in the Yangtze River Basin during the early Neolithic Era about 8,000 BC, drivers for subsequent development. …”
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Sharing Scientific Knowledge on Glaciers to the General Public: The Role of Glacier Interpretation Centres in Mountain Tourism Diversification Strategies by Kalpana Nesur, Emmanuel Salim, Camille Girault, Ludovic Ravanel

“…In the European Alps, glacial volume has decreased to one half since the end of the Little Ice Age. To confront with this evolution, local stakeholders are slowing adapting diversification on their tourism products and services. …”
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Transmettre le savoir scientifique sur les glaciers au grand public : rôle des centres d’interprétation glaciaire dans les stratégies de diversification touristique en montagne... by Kalpana Nesur, Emmanuel Salim, Camille Girault, Ludovic Ravanel

“…In the European Alps, glacial volume has decreased to one half since the end of the Little Ice Age. To confront with this evolution, local stakeholders are slowing adapting diversification on their tourism products and services. …”
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Hohle Fels – A UNESCO Global Geopark Geosite within a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Protection and Cooperation by Conny Meister, Iris Bohnacker, Guido Bataille

“…Since 2017, the site has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage “Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura”. Situated within the central Swabian Jura, the cave is also an integrative part of the Swabian Alb UNESCO Global Geopark. …”
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Slow and diverse: Upslope expansion of tree species since 1854 in the Bavarian Alps (Germany) detected by citizen science by Sabine Rösler, Michelangelo Olleck, Karl H. Mellert, Jörg Ewald

“…We motivated mountain hikers to survey high-altitude occurrences of selected tree and shrub species in the Bavarian Alps in a citizen science portal and compared the observations with historical data collected by the botanist Otto Sendtner at the end of the Little Ice Age. For nine of ten species with sufficient numbers of historical and citizen science observations, currently uppermost outpost occurrences were verified after data curation and subsampling. …”
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Capturing the transition from marine to land-terminating glacier from the 126-year retreat history of Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard by Jan Kavan, Petra Luláková, Jakub Małecki, Mateusz Czesław Strzelecki

“…Svalbard has experienced a dramatic increase in air temperature and glacier retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age. In many cases, this retreat has resulted in glaciers transitioning from being marine-terminating to land-terminating. …”
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Recurring cycles of ice and vegetation on Baffin Island, Nunavut by Martha K. Raynolds, Helga Bültmann, Shawnee A. Kasanke, Gifford Miller, Jonathan H. Raberg

“…The most recent retreat of glaciers on Baffin Island, Nunavut, has been since the Little Ice Age, due to anthropogenic warming. Retreating cold-based ice often uncovers ancient vegetation. …”
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Climatic variability as a principal driver of primary production in the southernmost subalpine Rocky Mountain lake by Anna Shampain, Jill S. Baron, Peter R. Leavitt, Sarah A. Spaulding

“…The abundance of cyanobacteria, purple sulfur-reducing bacteria, and diatom pigments were elevated during the stable conditions of the Little Ice Age; these phototrophic groups declined in the late 1800s and reached a minimum by 1950. …”
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Reconstruction of Paleoforest in Gunungsewu Karst Area in the Period of Human History by Lies Rahayu Wijayanti Faida, Sutikno Sutikno, Chafid Fandeli, Sunarto Sunarto

“…Cultural traits of prehistoric subsistence can explain that change in the types of flora is not caused by anthropogenic factors, but due to climate change triggered by the ice age expiration that marked the end of the Pleistocen.…”
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Thermal state of permafrost in the high mountains of Mexico by Kenji Yoshikawa, Victor Soto, Guillermo Ontiveros-Gonzales, Samael Oliver Vagamontes, Hugo Delgado Granados, Lorenzo Vazquez-Selem, David Palacios

“…Some of the sporadic permafrost may still exist on the Little Ice Age rock glaciers, but most of the buried glacial ice between 4,500 and 5,000 m.a.s.l. is slowly decaying and not thermally stable as permafrost. …”
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Central Asia Cold Case: Siberian Pine Fingers New Suspects in Growth Decline CA 1700 CE by David M. Meko, Dina F. Zhirnova, Liliana V. Belokopytova, Yulia A. Kholdaenko, Elena A. Babushkina, Nariman B. Mapitov, Eugene A. Vaganov

“…We conclude that stress from low summer temperatures in the Little Ice Age was likely exacerbated by tree damage associated with weather extremes, including infamous Mongolian “dzuds”, over 1695–1704. …”
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Late Pennsylvanian vegetation dynamics of the Donets Basin, Ukraine by Nataliya Boyarina

“…The dynamics of the Late Pennsylvanian vegetation cover of the Donets Basin is represented by a succession of formations of new plant communities (phytocoenogenesis) of a wetland forest and woodland biome and a seasonally dry woodland biome because of the changing landscape and climate conditions resulting from the glacio-eustatic changes during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. The Late Pennsylvanian vegetation consisted of plant communities of wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-fern forests on deltaic plains in the Kasimovian as well as wetland marattialean fern-dominated forests with new dominants on coastal lowlands and wetland lycopsid-pteridosperm-calamitalean-fern forests with new dominants on deltaic plains in the early Gzhelian that were formed according to the evolutionary progressive model of phytocoenogenesis under conditions of an expansion of coastal lowlands and deltaic plains inthe long-term period of a relatively stable higher sea level with frequent sea level fluctuations during the late Kasimovian–early-mid-Gzhelian interglacial interval. …”
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Greening of Svalbard in the twentieth century driven by sea ice loss and glaciers retreat by Gianmarco Ingrosso, Chiara Ceccarelli, Federico Giglio, Patrizia Giordano, Jens Hefter, Leonardo Langone, Stefano Miserocchi, Gesine Mollenhauer, Alessio Nogarotto, Mathia Sabino, Tommaso Tesi

“…Here, we measured plant-derived biomarkers from an Arctic fjord sediment core as proxies for reconstructing past changes in tundra vegetation during the transition from the Little Ice Age to modern warming. Our findings revealed a rapid expansion of the tundra since the beginning of the twentieth century, largely coinciding with the decline of summer sea ice extent and glacier retreat. …”
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Runoff responses to Atlantic multidecadal and Pacific decadal oscillations in China: Insights from the last millennium simulations by Yangyi Liu, Jie Chen, Lihua Xiong, Chong-Yu Xu

“…Taking Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and Little Ice Age (LIA) as study periods and focusing on summer runoff in China, this study aims to investigate 1) the major time scales at which AMO/PDO affects runoff, and 2) the individual and coupled effects of AMO and PDO on runoff by using last millennium climate model simulations. …”
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Fossil Diatoms Reveal Natural and Anthropogenic History of Jackson Lake (Wyoming, USA) by John Dilworth, Jeffery R. Stone, Kevin M. Yeager, J. Ryan Thigpen, Michael M. McGlue

“…The core spans the termination of the Little Ice Age and extends to the present day (∼1654–2019 CE). …”
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Geomorphology and Sedimentology of a Rapidly Retreating Alpine Glacier: Insights From the Taschachferner, Tirol, Austria by D. P. Le Heron, P. Mejías Osorio, M. Heninger, B. J. Davies

“…The valley margins are dominated by several generations of lateral moraines, the most prominent of which corresponds to the 1852 Little Ice Age Maximum. A well-developed “hanging sandur” is observed immediately in front of the ice margin. …”
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