Guarino and her colleagues focused on one period in particular. About 130,000 years ago, as Earth swung out of an ice age, it entered an interglacial period even warmer than the one we’re in today.

The Earth has gone through successive glacial and interglacial periods for about 2.5 million years. A new study reveals when the next ice age could occur, but human impact on the climate could change ...

The authors found each glaciation period in the last 900,000 years followed a predictable pattern. Transitions between glacial and interglacial periods matched up with small variations in the ...

Scientists have long known that shifts in Earth’s orbit influence transitions between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods. But until now, they could not pinpoint which orbital factors ...

Earth has long alternated between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 years -- unless human-caused global warming disrupts ...

"The pattern we found is so reproducible that we were able to make an accurate prediction of when each interglacial period of the past million years or so would occur and how long each would last ...

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 ...

There is indirect evidence that, during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated. An ice core drilled from the ice sheet near the ...

The Last Interglacial period (130,000 to 115,000 years ago), which occurred between the previous two ice ages, was a relatively warm stage of Earth's history characterized by higher temperatures ...

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 ...

The study is about the previous interglacial period, which lasted from 129,000 years ago to around 115,000 years ago. In Europe, this interglacial period is called Eem. Samples of ancient pollen ...

Methane emissions from tropical wetlands have been soaring since 2006 and accelerating at the same breakneck speed as when Earth's climate has flipped from a glacial to an interglacial period.