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 ...

During the glacial periods of the last million years ... The researchers conclude that we narrowly missed an ice age off-ramp in the past few thousand years because CO 2 was just a touch too high.

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 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.

Between these two ice-age periods, other ice ages occurred at 2,400–2,100, 715–550, 450–420 and 360–260 million years ago. These six major ice ages lasted between 300 and 30 million years ...

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.

The Pleistocene epoch is a geological time period that includes the last ice age, when glaciers covered huge parts of the globe. Also called the Pleistocene era, or simply the Pleistocene, this ...

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 ...