While the Milankovitch Cycles operate on timescales far longer than human lifespans, their effects are always at play.

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 ...

Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of these parameters' cycles and clues hidden at the bottom of the ocean. When you ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 years of Earth's dramatic Ice ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

You can learn all about how the Ice Age impacted Utah at an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah on Saturday, June 7, 2025, for a limited time. "Mysteries of the Ice Ages" explores 18,000 ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

In her debut, Portland-based science writer Laura Poppick elegantly makes the case that Earth's ancient geological history is ...

On the floor of a 32-foot-deep small lake just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Calvin students are literally digging up history. “It was a shot in the dark when we decided to core this lake ...