Scientists, including from British Antarctic Survey, have used octopus DNA to discover that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) likely collapsed during the Last Interglacial period around 120,000 ...

During this period, our planet experienced a significant transition in its glacial-interglacial cycles, shifting from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles, a phenomenon known as the ...

Credit: Matt Perko, UC Santa Barbara For millions of years, Earth’s climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and warm interglacial periods. A new study ...

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 ...

Looking at the past 900,000 years, the team uncovered a repeating pattern. Left to its own devices, Earth would remain in this warm interglacial period for several more millennia before the next deep ...

Over the years, Netflix has been home to a growing library of brilliant, award-winning historical and period dramas. From brutal Viking rule to the scandal-filled Regency era — there are so many ...

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 ...

Earth has two major modes: glacial and interglacial periods. Currently we are in an interglacial period with a warmer, more stable climate. But looking at the last ice age, which is the last ...

Global warming during the Last Interglacial period caused so much Arctic ice to melt that Atlantic currents collapsed — and scientists say these are the conditions we could be heading toward.

This is also known as glaciation. The reason the Earth is not covered by ice at the moment is because we are in a period known as an “interglacial.” In an ice age, temperatures fluctuate between ...