Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

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

A new study shows that the recurring ice age cycles are apparently associated with changes in the Earth's orbit around the ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation ...

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 ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by about 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit ...

"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. However, this result ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland discovered a cave that had sheltered prehistoric people known as the Magdalenians around 18,000 years ago. Magdalenian culture is well known for its ...