However, when discussing a global Ice Age, many scientists mean the series of events also known as “Snowball Earth”. There’s still debate as to how life survived a time when glaciers were ...

No, the whole earth — including the oceans — froze over. We were a blinding white Christmas tree ornament in the blackness of space: "snowball earth ... and the ice covered everything ...

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...

The new study revealed an "amazing correlation" between Earth's tilt and ice sheet formation, said lead author Stephen Barker. Based on these findings, researchers estimated that the next ice age ...

The cold periods - or ice ages - are times when the entire Earth experiences notably colder climatic conditions. During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in ...