Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

Many people know that Earth has gone through several ice ages in the past. These were long periods when big parts of the ...

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

A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released the most detailed map yet of what Antarctica looks like when you strip away ...

New Zealand has seen equally radical shifts in habitat before—during the Ice Age, which lasted 2.6 million years and ended about 12,000 years ago. At its height, parts of the country were up to ...

New Zealand's bird life has been shaped by repeated invasions since the Ice Age, with many species arriving from Australia as the landscape transitioned from forest to grass and shrubland.

The Little Ice Age, which lasted around 500 years, had a profound impact on the environment and the people who lived around Lake Ontario.

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

New Zealand has seen equally radical shifts in habitat before – during the Ice Age, which lasted 2.6 million years and ended about 12,000 years ago. At its height, parts of the country were up ...