If these patterns hold true, the next ice age could arrive within 11,000 years. How Earth’s Orbit Triggers Ice Ages For decades, scientists have suspected that Earth’s changing orbit plays a ...

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

But during the Little Ice Age — a period of regional cooling beginning around 700 years ago, especially in the North Atlantic region — things were a lot less intense.

The Little Ice Age was not a true ice age—average cooling was probably only in the order of 0.5 degrees Celsius, or 1 degree Fahrenheit—nor was it consistently cold.

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth’s harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that reached temperatures of 600°C—comparable to modern campfires. Despite ...

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

Why, after such a long period of cold, did the ice age finally come to an end? Scientists are still searching for the answer. "One of the big questions in my research field right now is why the ...

Temperature records also indicate that this coincides with the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation period, a long-term ice age that began around 2.5 million years ago.

Although the archaeological record confirms that hunter-gatherers in Europe built fires throughout the Upper Paleolithic period (45,000 to 10,000 years ago), there is a roughly 7,500-year gap that ...

To make it out of the last ice age alive, our ancestors needed a special set of skills.One of which was harnessing the power of fire.However, not many well-preserved fireplaces dating back to the ...