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

Many people know that Earth has gone through several ice ages in the past. These were long periods when big parts of the ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help ...

A new study shows that the recurring ice age cycles are apparently associated with changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun. According to the study, the planet would be heading towards another ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

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

A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to ...