and even Earth’s orbit around the Sun. 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 ...

Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.

Changes in Earth's tilt relative to the sun have governed the movements of giant ice sheets over the past 800,000 years, ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets ... of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict that the next ice age will take place 10,000 years from now.

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...

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

Researchers looked at patterns in the earth’s eccentricity ... Based off of this model, the next Ice Age would occur around 10,000 years from now if natural processes play out undisturbed.

Research Reveals How Earth ... now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ... Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

"The prediction is that the next ice age will begin within the ... Earth's axial tilt and the shape of Earth's orbit could trigger massive glacial events. Now, Barker and his colleagues say ...