Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could ...

Without human interference, Earth would likely be heading into an ice age within the next 11,000 years. But in our current anthropogenic climate era, the future is anything but certain. What This ...

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A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time.. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...

Earth; The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it. News. By Keith Cooper published 11 March 2025 "Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time ...

Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher. During vast stretches of the planet’s history, oceans from pole to pole were covered with a blanket of ice ...

Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years. Why ...

The Robberg is one of southern Africa's most distinctive and widespread stone tool technologies. Robberg tools—which we found ...

June 19, 2025 — During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ponds on the surface of equatorial glaciers. MIT ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between colder and warmer levels. Ice sheets and glaciers melt during warmer phases, which are called interglacials, and expand during colder phases, which ...