A researcher with UW collaborated on the project to come up with the most precise predictive Ice Age model to date.

The researchers studied Earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble to solve a problem that had stumped scientists for decades. View on euronews ...

A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match ... prediction of when each interglacial period of the past million years or so would occur ...

The long cylinders of ancient ice that they retrieve provide a dazzlingly detailed record of what was happening in the world over the past several ice ages ... The Ice Core Timeline requires ...

But throughout the period, the planet has wobbled on its path around the sun. The slight shifts cause ice ages to come and go. By 800,000 years ago, a cyclical pattern had emerged: Ice ages last ...

Crucially, the reconstruction has a consistent timeline which enables ... end to the icehouse period. Scientists previously thought that the Late Paleozoic ice age gradually waned away, but ...

Triggered by an abrupt period of ... many glaciers and ice sheets globally.” The team used beryllium isotopes to date 76 samples from the ridge of debris that formed after the Cordilleran ice sheet ...

Washington (AFP) – The Earth's next ice age is expected to begin in about 11,000 ... This transition marked the beginning of the Holocene epoch, an era of relative climate stability that enabled ...