If you think our winters are chilly, be glad you weren’t alive around 12,000 years ago, when Earth was undergoing its last Ice Age. Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) ...
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...
A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun, leading to researchers being able to predict ...