An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Ice Age may also refer to:

Ice Age is an American media franchise created by Michael J. Wilson, [1] centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games.

Mar 11, 2015 · Scientists have recorded five significant ice ages throughout the Earth’s history: the Huronian (2.4-2.1 billion years ago), Cryogenian (850-635 million years ago), Andean-Saharan (460-430...

Mar 2, 2025 · Ice age, any geologic period during which thick ice sheets cover vast areas of land. Such periods of large-scale glaciation may last several million years and drastically reshape surface features of entire continents. A number of major …

The Pleistocene (/ ˈ p l aɪ s t ə ˌ s iː n,-s t oʊ-/ PLY-stə-seen, -⁠stoh-; [4] [5] referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from c. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

May 24, 2017 · An ice age is a period in which the earth's climate is colder than normal, with ice sheets capping the poles and glaciers dominating higher altitudes. Within an ice age, there are varying pulses of colder and warmer climatic conditions, known as 'glacials' and 'interglacials'.

5 days ago · However, the effects of human-made climate change will be so long-lasting that they could prevent the next ice age from ever happening. "Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time ...

Mar 3, 2025 · Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should be 10,000 years away.. But the researchers say record rates of fossil fuel burning that are ...

3 days ago · An ice age is a long period of time when ice sheets cover large portions of the Earth’s surface. Within an ice age, there are shorter periods of glacial advance (glacial periods) and retreat (interglacial periods). We are currently in …

Feb 3, 2021 · Periodically, global temperatures drop, ice sheets form at the poles, then the ice creeps down to cover the continents. We call these ice ages. There have been five major ice ages in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history.