It's known as an interglacial period, or a time between ice ages. The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the ...

In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between ... years ago with the start of the current interglacial period. During that time, the planet was much cooler than it is now.

The Utah Geological Survey defines an ice age as “a long interval of time … when global temperatures ... During Earth’s most recent glaciation period, which peaked around 20,000 years ...

A study on this time period was recently published in the journal ... environment for the first time since this massive ice ...

(The ice age itself began approximately 2.6 million ... "The main reason that we're interested in this broad time period around 1 million years ago is because it's a time when we have a shift ...

“We know that fire was widespread before and after this period ... well-preserved hearths from this time? “Was most of the evidence destroyed by the ice-age-typical, alternating freezing ...

"We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there is little evidence from the height of the Ice Age," explained ... the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People ...

“This study showed that the planet experienced these short, sudden episodes of burning, and they happened at the same time as these other big ... spiked during abrupt climate change periods during the ...

"It is noteworthy that periods of intensified volcanic eruptions, which contributed to the cooling during the Little Ice Age, coincided ... It's a waste of everyone's time." Matthew Rozsa was ...