TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - There have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods over the last 800,000 years, according to NASA. This is based on data from natural records of climate, an example ...

Eccentricity. Obliquity. Precession. The Earth’s climate is influenced by both natural long-term cycles and recent human activities. The Milankovitch cycles refer to the long-term variations in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance ...

Even below the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold, California reservoirs no longer fill in some years and overflow with extreme ...

Professor Isabel Montañez, a chancellor’s leadership professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, joined UC Davis in 1998.(Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Our planet’s history is one of ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions between Earth's tectonic activity and astronomical cycles jointly shaped ...

Shifts in Earth's orbit around the sun influence the start and end of Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years and human ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that the Earth’s climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age – known as Snowball Earth. During ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that Mars exerts a subtle yet measurable influence on Earth’s orbit, ...

Climate troublemakers El Niño and La Niña have been around for a long time. A really, really long time. A new study says the dance between El Niño and its counterpart, La Niña, was present on our ...