But for centuries, scientists have struggled to pinpoint exactly why these shifts occur and when the next ice age might begin. Now, a new study published in Science has unraveled the mystery ...

Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...

“When we look at Ice Age 10, we can very clearly predict when Ice Age 9, 8, 7 and 6, and so on, all happened,” Nuber said. Researchers came up with this method by looking at “astronomical ...

These human ancestors lived during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago. What do we know about them? The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

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).

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) New geological data reveals that global sea levels rose rapidly after the last ice age, with peaks exceeding 1 meter per century during the early Holocene. This ...

Research: Ancient Alaskans were fishing for salmon 11,500 years ago Alaska researchers turn up 12,300-year-old artwork How Alaskans survived the last Ice Age Remains of Ice Age infants found at ...

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...