Based on these findings, researchers estimated that the next ice age would be well underway in 11,000 years — were it not for human-driven global warming. "The prediction is that the next ice age will ...

The last glacial maximum, which lasted from 26,500 to 19,000 years ago, was the most severe phase of the Late Pleistocene ice age. During this period, massive ice sheets and polar ice caps covered ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

With the impending ice age almost upon them ... Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.