A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.

Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.

The ocean current that gives western Europe its relatively balmy climate is stuttering, raising fears that it might fail entirely and plunge the continent into a mini ice age.

A group of climate and ice experts say they have new evidence that earth is not even halfway through the current warm era, dispelling concerns that the Earth is overdue for a new Ice Age.

The author warns that global warming could paradoxically bring about an ice age by disrupting the North Atlantic current.

Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming, new research suggests.

A study, which is being taken seriously by top government scientists, has uncovered a change "of remarkable amplitude" in the circulation of the waters of the North Atlantic.

The author looks at current theories about global warming and orbital cycles to answer the question of "When will the next ice age begin?".

The authors argue that the U.S. Navy is not prepared for the 'chilling' effects of global warming. New research indicated that global warming may lead to a period of global cooling by disrupting the North Atlantic current which regulates global temperatures. They conclude with suggestions for how to adapt the Navy for a cooler world.

Scientists have been warning that the Earth is slowly heating up, that the recent run of gentle winters in the United States is no fluke, but the warm-up to the big meltdown. Now, however, comes a chilling prediction from some of the same experts. Before the climate gets balmier, they say, it could take a sudden turn toward the frigid - and stay that way for decades, if not centuries.

Mankind could lock the world into an irreversible greenhouse effect, banishing future ice ages, warn two Belgian scientists. Global warming caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases could tip the Earth into a completely new climate state in which cycles of freezing and thawing are switched off, they suggest.