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

Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.

For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and ...

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

Created by the Magdalenians, a late Ice Age society that lived in central Europe ... some experts theorized that the cut marks on skulls and shattered long bone remnants suggested evidence of ...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...

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).

Cut marks and fractures on the bone fragments ... wake of the last glacial maximum—the coldest period of the last ice age. The milder climates in Europe likely led to larger human populations ...

During the Ice Age, early humans lived alongside large animals like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.