Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...
Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.
The researchers studied Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble to solve a problem that had stumped scientists for decades. View on ...
Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...
First of all the rotation axis changes relative to the Earth’s surface which is referred to as polar motion. The main component of polar motion is the so-called Chandler wobble. Although it was ...
Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of ...
The research, published Thursday, February 27, in the journal Science, found a strong connection between Earth’s axial tilt ...
Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging ...
Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation ...
Glacial cycles aren’t random; they follow a predictable rhythm dictated by Earth’s orbit. A study analyzing climate records ...
Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.