Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...

Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.

It has been assumed that changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun are responsible for the ice age cycles. It is now clear ...

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

Earth’s climate follows a natural cycle of ice ages and warm periods. A new study shows that small orbital changes drive ...

The work elucidates how it came to pass. Obliquity causes variation in seasonality over a 41,000-year period, which affects how much total energy the higher latitudes get in summer. Precession changes ...

Scientists have long known that Earth’s climate goes through cycles of ice ages and warmer periods. Around 2.5 million years ago, the planet entered a phase marked by repeated ice ages, with the most ...

Antarctica’s ice caps have been shaping the ocean for millions of years, but recent discoveries reveal icebergs existed even ...

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 ...

The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless human-caused global warming disrupts natural ...

Coauthor of the study, Professor Lorraine Lisiecki of the University of California, Santa Barbara, added: “This is important ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation ...