A research team now shows the extent to which glaciers at an altitude of more than 3,000 m in ... Global Warming and Mass Extinctions: What We Can Learn from Plants from the Last Ice Age Feb. 12 ...

The Museum of Natural History’s Sidney Horenstein noted New York, at least, has risen roughly 150 feet following the retreat of the ice and the loss of its immense weight. The Earth’s crust still ...

Scientists have predicted future glacial ... finds ice ages are cyclical and can be predicted based on the Earth's orbit of the sun.Image: Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended ...

The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the researchers said in their findings. “But such a transition to a glacial st ...

A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 ... a step-change in understanding the planet's glacial cycles. The team examined a million-year record of climate ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...