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 researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun. But their new ...

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 ...

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

"Getting your first labret seemed to have occurred in childhood ... the result of a lifetime of metal (or bone, or whatever Ice Age people used) pressing against their teeth.

However, don't rush for your woolly hat and scarf just yet, because the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. Our planet has always ...

The researchers say their new model is the first step in understanding how humans affect long ... the post-industrial period ...