Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

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

New geological data has given more insight into the rate and magnitude of global sea level rise following the last ice age, ...

When European diseases wiped out up to 90% of the Americas' population, abandoned farmland was swallowed by forests—pulling enough carbon from the air to help plunge the planet into a centuries-long ...

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 ...

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

So why is our planet alone so hospitable ... For example, as the Ice Age progressed, scientists believe the amount of natural carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dropped over thousands of years ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age ... rare events in the planet's history and ...

The study tracks the natural cycles of the planet's climate over a period of ... and that the next ice age would begin many millennia in the future, approximately 10,000 years from now.

It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had previously covered Earth disappeared. The Holocene has seen major change on our planet, including the rapid population growth of our ...

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.