Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging ...
Scientists have predicted future glacial periods by matching Earth's past ice ages to its orbit around the sun. But their new ...
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...
The research, published Thursday, February 27, in the journal Science, found a strong connection between Earth’s axial tilt ...
An international team, including researchers from UC Santa Barbara, made their prediction based on a new interpretation of the small changes in Earth’s orbit of the sun, which lead to massive shifts ...
Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation ...
For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and ...
Analysis of Earth's past climate changes suggest the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 years' time, ...
On its own, Earth would shift toward another ice age in about 10,000 ... its wobble and the angle on which its axis is tilted. “We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for ...