Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun. But their new ...

The researchers studied Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble to solve a problem that had stumped scientists for decades. View on ...

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

A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

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

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).

New Zealand has seen equally radical shifts in habitat before—during the Ice Age, which lasted 2.6 million years and ended about 12,000 years ago. At its height, parts of the country were up to ...

"Everyone knows that the wooly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age," says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

Scientists also discovered pieces of charred wood at the Kostenki 11 site. This indicates that Ice Age humans had access to wood for fuel and possibly for construction. However, the scarcity of wood ...

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 ...