The Earth has had at least five major ice ages, and humans showed up in time for the most recent one. In fact, we’re still in it.

July 8, 2025 — As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of ...

Specifically, they found that the end of any given ice age, the last of which was 11,700 years ago, is brought about by a combination of changes in precession of Earth's axis, which affects peak ...

An interglacial is a warm break in an ice age, typically a few thousand years long. We’re technically in an interglacial right now, which started about 11,700 years ago.

Two Degrees: There have been ice ages and warm hot periods in the Earth’s distant past. A CNN reader asks if those debunk our understanding of global warming.

Dust in ice cores leads to new knowledge on the advancement of the ice before the ice age Date: October 4, 2019 Source: University of Copenhagen Summary: Working with the ice core ReCap, drilled ...

But ice ages have colder periods (called "glacials") and warmer ones ("interglacials"). What we typically refer to as "the ice age" is the most recent glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ...

When most people talk about the “ice age,” they are usually referring to the last glacial period, which began about 115,000 years ago and ended about 11,000 years ago with the start of the ...

How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could humans live through one? — Mason C., age 8, Hobbs, New Mexico Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago ...