The next ice age will be late. An ice age is a long time of freezing weather. It brings a huge increase in ice in the world. The researchers think the next ice age will be in 10,000 years. It could be delayed because of climate change. This could make it "very unlikely" that the next ice age will arrive on time.

A researcher looked at one million years of climate data. He studied how past ice ages happened. He looked at how ice affects the Earth's axis and global temperatures. When the amount of ice does not change, ice ages happen at regular intervals. The researcher said less ice means a longer gap between ice ages.