A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in ... The study tracks the natural cycles of the ...

Differences between the fireplaces suggest a clever and intentional use. Whether it was used for cooking, heating, lighting, ...

The most recent period of glaciation, which many people think of as the "Ice Age", was at its height approximately 20,000 years ago. Although the exact causes for ice ages, and the glacial cycles ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over two key climate mysteries. What sparked the formation of Earth’s vast ice sheets during the last ice age—and how did they spread so fast? New research may finally ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million ... This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which shallow, life-rich seas shrank away. Life at the start of the ...

A period of abrupt warming during an otherwise cold climate characteristic of the last Ice Age Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycles: Periods of rapid climate variability that occurred throughout the last Ice ...

Hominids have been using fire for at a million years — but scientists have found that humans were grilling down during the ...

But how did our Ice Age ancestors do it? There actually isn’t much in the archaeological record to help answer that question. “We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there ...