Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed since the first edition
of this book was published but in that time researchers around the world have developed new
methods and published their findings in scientific journals. Consequently ideas about the
course of the Ice Age have changed dramatically. The sequence of the individual ice advances
the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known
but they can be reconstructed. This book offers in-depth information about the state of the
investigations. Ice ages are the periods of the earth's history in which at least one polar
region is glaciated or covered by sea ice. Thus we are currently living in an Ice Age. The
present Ice Age is also the period in which humans started to intervene in the shaping of the
earth. The results are obvious. Aerial and satellite images can be used to trace the melting of
glaciers but also the decay of the Arctic permafrost and the clearing of the Brazilian
rainforest. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Das Eiszeitalter by
Juergen Ehlers published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany part of Springer Nature in 2020.
The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by
DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content so that the
book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works
continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and promotes
technologies to support the authors.
