Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

A trove of prehistoric Ice Age treasures are being exhibited alongside classic works of art to show why they deserve their ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Could Britain face a winter ice age? How temperatures could one day plummet due to climate change A small but growing stash of science warns a crucial ocean current that warms Europe could one day ...

In the absence of that warm front, Britain would be plunged into a new ice age in winter, battling frozen runways, roads, forests and farmland. Arctic sea ice would blanket much of Scotland and most ...

There is a poorly understood but plausible chance winter temperatures could one day plummet in the UK even as global temperatures soar. An emerging body of research has spotted the risk that climate ...

Giant icebergs the size of Norwich were drifting off the coast of Britain during the last ice age, according to a new study that has uncovered their existence. The underbelly of massive "tabular ...

More than 70 objects from the British Museum will go on show in an Ice Age exhibition due to launch later this year in Bradford as part of the 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The exhibition ...

There was a time when the icy winds of the Ice Age swept across Britain, and the land was a vast, frozen wilderness. This was ...

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, about 11,700 years ago. This information is of great importance to ...

An analysis of peat layers at the bottom of the North Sea shows how fast sea level rose during the end of the last ice age, when Earth was warming at a similar rate as today.