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The Saudi Heritage Commission has unveiled new evidence of recurrent humid periods that shaped the Arabian Peninsula’s climate over the past 8 million years, according to a scientific study published ...

These glaciers didn’t stop until they buried much of the northern continents. Scientists have long tied this spread to shifts in Earth’s orbit, which led to cooler Northern Hemisphere summers.

coinciding with major global changes such as Northern Hemisphere glaciation and a weakening of the monsoon system. After the mid-Pleistocene transition, around 700,000 years ago, rainfall became ...

It’s strange to think it but technically speaking we are in the middle of an ice age ... to the cold northern regions of the planet, so more snow fell. And slowly, the northern hemisphere ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial ... high resolution climate dataset for the past 60,000 years for the northern ...

How has glaciation shaped the landforms of the Northern Hemisphere? videoHow has glaciation shaped the landforms of the Northern Hemisphere? Iain Stewart explains the glaciation of the Northern ...