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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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

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 ...

Surprisingly, however, there is little well-preserved evidence of fire use from the coldest period of the Ice Age -- between 26,500 and 19,000 years ago -- in Europe.

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 ...