Is Earth still in an ice age? While most people imagine ice ages as times of constant snow and glaciers, the truth is far more complex. Surprisingly, we are currently living in an ice age,more ...

We know that the Earth has had at least five major ice ages. The first one happened about 2 billion years ago and lasted about 300 million years.

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.

Snowball Earth: Our Planet’s Greatest Ice Age Probably Didn’t Have Single Cause For more than 50 million years the Earth was almost entirely locked in ice and it probably took a double blow to ...

Ice Age, the next chapter of the award-winning Apple TV+ series, premieres November 26 with narration by Tom Hiddleston.

"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.

Earth has experienced several climate cycles throughout its long history, including several ice ages that caused the planet to freeze over. The last ice age occurred approximately 11,700 years ago, ...

Earth's Past Ice Ages Could Have Been Triggered By Our Movement Through The Galaxy "Something outside the Solar System" may have dramatically cooled the Earth.

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt.

There’s a theory about how the Marinoan ice age–also known as the “Snowball Earth” ice age because of its extreme low temperatures–came to an abrupt end some 600 million years ago.

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

BBC Studios Natural History Unit is producing Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age for Apple TV+, with Tom Hiddleston set to narrate.