Sea levels fall and rise with each period of freezing and thawing ... including the climate. At the start of the Quaternary, the continents were just about where they are today, slowing inching ...

The Earth is approaching the climate zero moment ... for about 2.5 million years we have been living in the Quaternary Ice Age, to be precise in its declining phase. However, something so unusual ...

Understanding how ice sheets behaved during the Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years, is critical for predicting their future responses to climate change. Ice sheet growth and ...

There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases ... The Holocene and Pleistocene are part of the Quaternary Period of Earth's history.

These are crucial for understanding climate change in the recent geological past (the Quaternary Period, spanning the last 2.6 million years), which provides a framework for understanding a diverse ...

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 ...