Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice ...

Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when the next ice age could occur, but human impact on the climate could change ...

Research indicates that delicate deepwater corals tolerated or adapted to major climate and salinity fluxes, “yet today, it’s ...

For many millions of years, our planet has experienced glacial periods followed by warmer periods. A crucial role in these changes might come from the orbital motion of our planet. By studying how ...

The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a predictable pattern. Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the ...

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Rather than relying on the given precision of paleoproxy age models, Stephen Barker and colleagues took a novel approach by analyzing the morphology of the beginning and end of glacial periods ...

Without human-induced climate change, Earth may have been on track to plunge into another glacial period within 11,000 years. This long-term forecast of the planet’s “natural” climate is ...

"We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth's climate changes between glacial 'ice ages' and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials," Lorraine ...