In the throes of the Little Ice Age, Europe faced extreme winters, and even the mighty Napoleon succumbed to its icy grasp during the ill-fated Russian invasion. But as Mount Tambora erupted in 1812, ...

That observation made it possible to make predictions, too. First in history: Scientists uncover mummified saber-tooth cub from Ice Age The period we live in now, called the Holocene, began some ...

Related: How many ice ages has the Earth had ... Currently, Earth's obliquity is 23.4 degrees, but over history it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees approximately every 40,000 years.

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ages.

The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?

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When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

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.

Following the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the levels of the North Sea began to rise as waters formerly locked up in great ice sheets melted. Sometime after about 8200 BC the ...

More than two-thirds – or 69 percent – of the observed vertical land motion is due to ongoing effects from the last ice age. “This ice age effect is the largest in Maryland, Virginia, and North ...

ABC, PBS, ITV Studios, Screen Australia and Screen NSW are thrilled to announce production has commenced on the groundbreaking new three-part natural history series, Ages of Ice.