Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...

The debate over Earth’s climate has often focused on global warming and the human activities that contribute to it. But some ...

Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch proposed in the 1920s ... If Earth were following its natural cycles, another ice age would likely begin in about 10,000 years. However, researchers warn that ...

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

A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don't worry, it's not for a very long time. An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its ...

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

Collectively known as Milankovitch cycles, these periodic changes occur roughly every 20,000, 40,000, 100,000, and 400,000 years, but teasing out which aspects of Earth's orbit are involved in ...

Credit: Matt Perko/UC Santa Barbara. Scientists have long known that Earth’s climate goes through cycles of ice ages and warmer periods. Around 2.5 million years ago, the planet entered a phase ...

The plots were so neat that the scientists extrapolated the data and estimated when the next glacial period would occur if the climate was changing only according to natural cycles, Barker said ...