The Ice Age (and its resulting changes in climate) was among one of the harshest periods on Earth. During an ice age, the ...

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A sixth-century "mini" ice age may have been "the straw that broke the camel's back" that led to the final disintegration of the Western Roman Empire, a new study claims. Between A.D. 536 and 547, ...

Thousands of people walking and playing across the frozen River Thames. Soldiers on horseback capturing ships stuck in the ice. Indigenous populations using snowshoes to outfox English interlopers.

A new study published last week is giving us a better idea. The research builds on previous hypotheses theorizing that Ice Ages occur on a predictable timeline that relates to the geometry of Earth’s ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...

Editor’s note: Opinion content is solely the opinion of the author and not the Daily Journal. Encyclopedia Britannica states that an ice age is a prolonged period of reduced temperature on the Earth’s ...