Without human interference, Earth would likely be heading into an ice age within the next 11,000 years. But in our current anthropogenic climate era, the future is anything but certain. What This ...

Thomas Mulligan explains how Earth's orbital changes trigger ice ages every 100,000 years through astronomical cycles.

"The prediction is that the next ice age will begin within the next 10,000 years," Barker, a professor of Earth science at Cardiff University in the U.K., told Live Science.

On its own, Earth would shift toward another ice age in about 10,000 years, scientists say. But humanity's greenhouse gas emissions may have radically shifted the climate's trajectory.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time.. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...

In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between colder and warmer levels. Ice sheets and glaciers melt during warmer phases, which are called interglacials, and expand during colder phases, which ...

At that time, early human ancestors shared our planet with prehistoric animals like mastodons and sabretooth tigers. It's also when Earth was in the midst of the ice age that ended only around ...

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years. Why ...

The Ice Age Has Nothing on ‘Snowball Earth’ Five hundred million years before the dawn of dinosaurs, strange animals ruled a frozen planet. By Chris Baraniuk ...

July 5, 2025 — For decades, scientists believed the Arctic Ocean was sealed under a massive slab of ice during the coldest ice ages — but new research proves otherwise. Sediment samples from ...