"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

Earth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the planet's atmosphere and led to the development of multiple ice ages, researchers suggest ...

Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the shape of the Earth's orbit of the sun — how the Earth ‘wobbles' in space — and the angle of the ...

A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 years' time. The findings are published in the journal Science. An international team, including researchers from ...

Samples drilled from deep beneath the sea have revealed just how much global sea levels changed following the last ice age. Melting ice caps in North America, Antarctica and Europe caused sea ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...