Scientists say small changes in the way the Earth orbits the sun hold the key in major global changes in climate, like ice ...

Over 700 million years ago, Earth experienced a dramatic climate event known as the Sturtian glaciation, one of the most ...

Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex ...

Find out what scientists say about the Next Ice Age and the natural rhythms shaping our planet's climate over millennia.

Earth emerged from the last ice age around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the next one could be expected in 10,000 ...

Earth’s climate follows a natural cycle of ice ages and warm periods. A new study shows that small orbital changes drive ...

According to a new study, changes in Earth’s tilt have driven the rise and fall of massive ice sheets for the past 800,000 ...

It has been assumed that changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun are responsible for the ice age cycles. It is now clear ...

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation ...

Glacial cycles aren’t random; they follow a predictable rhythm dictated by Earth’s orbit. A study analyzing climate records ...

The work elucidates how it came to pass. Obliquity causes variation in seasonality over a 41,000-year period, which affects how much total energy the higher latitudes get in summer. Precession changes ...

The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless human-caused global warming disrupts natural ...