For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and warm interglacial periods. A new study has uncovered a clear, predictable ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

Changes in Earth's tilt relative to the sun have governed the movements of giant ice sheets over the past 800,000 years, triggering the start and end of eight ice ages ... researchers estimated that ...

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...

A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age. The three camps are known tongue in ...

The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age, hunting mammoths and other big game with spear points not unlike this one. To make the point ...

An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years ... which orbital characteristic has the most influence on the start and end of ice ages, according to a news release from the University of ...

Unfortunately, the shifting climate at the end of the ice age, combined with the competition with humans for food, led to the demise of the dire wolf and many other ancient predators about 10,000 ...

It emerged as the warm Pliocene ended and the Modern Ice Age began, when a cooler, drier planetary phase commenced. This change also triggered the end of the African forests that sheltered our ...