Ice ages, or glacial periods, are extremely cold stretches of time that occur roughly every 100,000 years, covering much of the planet with enormous ice sheets for thousands of years at a time.

Without human-induced climate change, Earth may have been on track to plunge into another glacial period within 11,000 years. This long-term forecast of the planet’s “natural” climate is ...

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Research indicates that delicate deepwater corals tolerated or adapted to major climate and salinity fluxes, “yet today, it’s ...

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Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...

For many millions of years, our planet has experienced glacial periods followed by warmer periods. A crucial role in these changes might come from the orbital motion of our planet. By studying how ...

"We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth's climate changes between glacial 'ice ages' and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials," Lorraine ...

The last time this occurred was during a glacial period that ended about 11,700 years ago. Those sheets "weighed down" the surface, compressing it. As the glaciers melted, the surface began to ...

Glacial lakes in the Himalayas are expanding at an alarming rate, increasing the risk of catastrophic floods for nearby ...

Rather than relying on the given precision of paleoproxy age models, Stephen Barker and colleagues took a novel approach by analyzing the morphology of the beginning and end of glacial periods ...