What is it about the last interglacial that’s so unique, that gave rise to higher sea levels?” The problem is, researchers often assume climate change happened synchronously across the globe ...

To better understand our current interglacial period and whether recent temperature changes are truly anomalous, it would be helpful to have a complete picture of what the globe's been up to.

An interglacial is a warm break in an ice age, typically a few thousand years long. We’re technically in an interglacial right now, which started about 11,700 years ago. Figuring out what ...

Data from that time reveals that Arctic temperatures during the last interglacial were at least ... can naturally warm or cool regions of the globe, slowing or hastening the pace of ice-free ...

The team found that the changes in the Earth's climate, from ice ages to warm periods like today called interglacial conditions, synced up to the orbital behavior. “We were amazed to find such a ...

Earth’s average global temperature has fluctuated between glacial and interglacial conditions in cycles lasting around 100,000 years, driven largely by slow and predictable changes in Earth’s ...

We call that time the “last interglacial” (in-between glacial periods) which peaked around 125,000 years ago. A visual illustrates the last 1 million years of global temperatures with cold ...

But he could not trigger a super-interglacial in his simulations ... it would have climate consequences for the whole globe.” Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Currently, we are in an 11,000 year-long interglacial period known as the Holocene. Prior to this, the Last Interglacial occurred between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. During this time ...

If the long-term temperature averages—say, over decades—begin to resemble the current short-term ones, we’ll have succeeded in traveling back to the interglacial period from a climate ...

More information: Eric W. Wolff et al, The Ronne Ice Shelf survived the last interglacial, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08394-w Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last ...

Warm interglacial periods happen in between ... Martin Finucane can be reached at [email protected].