The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

Turkish researchers are tracing Ice Age-era human presence in south-central Türkiye, walking roughly 25 kilometers each day ...

While the Milankovitch Cycles operate on timescales far longer than human lifespans, their effects are always at play.

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

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In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Reading time 2 minutes In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland ...

Rocks carried from Greenland to Iceland by icebergs add to evidence that the climate in Europe got a lot colder for a century or two starting around AD 540 – a “mini ice age” that may have played a ...

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA ...