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In computer simulations run by the researchers, the cooling effect became strong enough to push Earth into an ice age. (Image for representation: AI generated/ Freepik)

Will present global warming really lead to the next ice age?

December 29, 2025 8:28 am

Researchers say warming can trigger powerful ocean feedbacks that drive dramatic long-term cooling.

The greatest rock teacher of all time also played a panda, a lion, a shark and is worth $50 million

August 28, 2025 9:09 pm

Jack Black voiced characters like Lenny from Shark Tale and Zeke from Ice Age, but his most memorable animated film role came in the form of Po in the movie franchise Kung Fu Panda.

In a first in paleontological history, sabre-toothed kitten mummy found in Siberia with intact skin, fur and toes

November 23, 2024 4:07 pm

The mummy of a newborn sabre-toothed cat was discovered along the banks of the Badyarikha River in Yakutia, Russia

Study explains how primordial life survived on 'Snowball Earth'

April 07, 2023 12:38 pm

New findings support the idea that it was more of a "Slushball Earth" where the earliest forms of complex life - basic multicellular organisms - endured even at mid-latitudes previously thought to have been frozen solid.

Genetics study lays bare Ice Age drama for humans in Europe

March 05, 2023 8:05 am

Researchers on Wednesday unveiled an analysis of genome data from 356 hunter-gatherers who lived in the region between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago, a span that included the Ice Age's coldest interval between 25,000 and 19,000 years ago.

Can archaeology be used to study the effects of climate change?

December 24, 2021 5:21 pm

Archaeological data sets hold immense potential in informing present-day dialogues on resilience, food security, and “can be used to promote community-based adaptation.”

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Ice Age asteroid crater discovered beneath Greenland glacier

November 15, 2018 2:27 pm

The discovery could lead to insights into the ice age climate, and the effects on it from the eruption of debris that would have resulted from such a cataclysmic collision.