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 ...

Ice ages, or glacial periods, are extremely cold stretches of time that occur roughly every 100,000 years, covering much of the planet with enormous ice sheets for thousands of years at a time.

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Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday.

"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 ...

The last time this occurred was during a glacial period that ended about 11,700 years ago. Those sheets "weighed down" the surface, compressing it. As the glaciers melted, the surface began to ...

An alternative hypothesis to explain the D-O cycles of the last glacial period has to do with large-scale changes in wind patterns over the North Atlantic (Romanova et al. 2006, Wunsch 2006).

PERMAFROST has been shown by many authors to have existed in various parts of England during the last glacial period 1,2. Its full extent and distribution have remained somewhat uncertain but can ...

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 ...