It's when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long ... we have spread around the world. During the ice age, some populations remained in Africa and did not experience the full effects of the ...

An ice age is a time in Earth’s history when temperatures drop, and huge sheets of ice cover much of the land. During ice ...

During Earth’s most recent glaciation period ... are a number of factors that might help plunge the planet into an ice age, and some explanations aren’t particularly intuitive.

"The prediction is that the next ice age will begin within the next 10,000 years," Barker, a professor of Earth science at Cardiff ... reaches equatorial regions during the summer within time ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

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 ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ... Their goal: to recreate Earth’s movement during and after the last glacial cycle, which peaked about 26,000 years ago.

During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice a kilometer or so thick. Scientists call this “snowball Earth.” Some early animals ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says.

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a 'warm ice age' permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. During this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly expanded.