The Mighty Jungle

The last ice age was about 125,000 years ago.

125,000 years ago, Earth was in an interglacial period similar to today's because glaciers were confined to high latitudes and high altitudes. However, over the past 125,000 years, the Earth system has gone through an entire glacial-interglacial cycle, and this is only the latest of many cycles that have occurred over the past million years. The most recent cooling and glacial period began about 120,000 years ago. Huge ice sheets formed and persi...