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

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

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.

The new study revealed an "amazing correlation" between Earth's tilt and ice sheet formation, said lead author Stephen Barker. Based on these findings, researchers estimated that the next ice age ...