EARLY glaciologists wrote of ‘The Ice Age,’ next of ‘The Great Ice Age,’ and when it became obvious that there had been earlier refrigerations not inferior in intensity to the latest, of ...

Scientists have discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about. The researchers found, for ...

A graph in the lower, right corner the quantifies the change over time by showing the area in millions of square kilometers covered by each age category of perennial sea ice. This graph also includes ...

Our new research published in Nature shows ice ages were actually much wetter than previously thought – at least in the subtropical regions of the southern hemisphere (from 20° to 40° south).

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.

The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.

That’s right, we’re living in an Ice Age. That’s hard to believe in these days of dangerously increasing global temperatures, but ice ages aren’t uniformly hard-frozen. Within these major ice ages ...

This 100,000-year cycle of ice ages had long puzzled scientists, as previous models struggled to explain its cause. The new study, however, shows that this pattern isn’t random—it’s ...

Research Article Published: 02 April 1938 Ice Ages* GEORGE SIMPSON Nature 141, 591–598 (1938) Cite this article ...

Since the end of that ice age, about 87,000 cubic kilometers of ice accumulated at the poles, especially in the north pole. That’s exciting, because 400,000 years is pretty recent when talking ...