Glaciers are some of our planet’s oldest inhabitants, but during several icy periods, they covered much more of Earth’s ...

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

In the interglacial periods (like the one we’re in now ... for the timing of when Earth’s climate changes between glacial ‘ice ages’ and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials.” ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when the next ice age could occur, but human impact on the climate could change ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

Ice ages, or glacial periods, are extremely cold stretches ... Glacial periods are separated by warmer interglacial periods, when ice sheets retreat toward the poles. Earth is currently in an ...

Past ice sheets have retreated ... The fluctuations between glacial and interglacial states are driven by changes in Earth's orbit around the sun - called Milankovitch Cycles - that change the ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago. We are looking at the effects of ...

“The fact that the rocks come from nearly all geological regions of Greenland provides evidence of their glacial ... Ice Age. According to Gernon, this timing also lines up with a known period ...