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

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 planet has a memory. Deep within ice cores and ocean sediments lies evidence of a time when Earth looked fundamentally ...

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 ...

After years as a professional research assistant at INSTAAR’s stable isotope lab, Valerie Morris estimates she’s processed more than 10 kilometers of ice from around the world. “You’ve done more ice ...

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 ...