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

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when ...

Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

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

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by about 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit ...

The research, published Thursday, February 27, in the journal Science, found a strong connection between Earth’s axial tilt ...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images Earth's last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago and a new study predicts the next one should ...

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 ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner.

A new study shows that the recurring ice age cycles are apparently associated with changes in the Earth's orbit around the ...

The Little Ice Age, which lasted around 500 years, had a profound impact on the environment and the people who lived around Lake Ontario.

Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age New analysis methods, applied to ancient plant DNA, reveal how hard-hit plants were and are by global ...