In the shift between ice ages and interglacial periods the atmospheric content of CO2 helps to intensify the natural climate variations, the journal Climate of the Past reports. It had previously ...

The Cycle of Ice Ages Ice ages don't just appear out of nowhere. They are part of a natural cycle that our planet has ...

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 ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period ... of the ice core. We measured various analytes along the length of the core, and these enabled us to assign ages to core ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

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 ...

We currently live in an interglacial period called the Holocene epoch that began around 11,700 years ago. Before the Holocene, the last glacial period lasted about 110,000 years .

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) are emblematic creatures from the last ice age. | Credit ... Administration (NOAA). Glacial and interglacial periods are thought to alternate depending ...