Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...

A new study published last week is giving ... the changes in the Earth’s position relative to the Sun. These changes serve as the predictors for when an Ice Age can be expected to occur.

Over the past million years, Earth has alternated between ice ages and warm periods. The last ice age, or glacial period, ended about 11,700 years ago. That transition ushered in the Holocene ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry ... In a review of the last nearly 1 million years, the team observed a "pattern" in ...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away. But the researchers say record rates of fossil ...

The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some 11,700 years ago when the last ice age ended. It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages.

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during ... orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict that the next ice age will take place 10,000 ...