Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

In the interglacial periods (like the one we’re in now ... for the timing of when Earth’s climate changes between glacial ‘ice ages’ and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials.” ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when the next ice age could occur, but human impact on the climate could ...

Researchers in Vienna found three fireplaces from the coldest period of the Ice Age, also the most mysterious.

Past ice sheets have retreated ... The fluctuations between glacial and interglacial states are driven by changes in Earth's orbit around the sun - called Milankovitch Cycles - that change the ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases) and times when it has been cooler (glacial phases), when there have been ice ages. The last major cold period was known as ...

An alternative hypothesis to explain the D-O cycles of the last glacial period has to do with ... During the last ice age, massive continental ice sheets up to five km high covered much of North ...

Yet a lack of evidence from the coldest part of the ice age has prevented scientists from saying how. “We know that fire was widespread before and after this period, but there is little evidence ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago. We are looking at the effects of ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools -- it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of people in the Ice Age. However, it is puzzling that hardly any ...

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when the next ice age could occur, but human impact on the climate could change ...