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

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pattern is being disrupted for tens of thousands of years due to human-induced global warming ...

External and internal forcings: External forcing mechanisms involve agents acting from outside the climate system (e.g., Milankovitch cycles). Internal mechanisms operate within the climate system ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

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

Scientists have long known that small changes in how Earth orbits the sun influence glacial cycles over thousands ... has not been seen before.” The Milankovitch theory, which was proposed ...

Those natural cycles are caused by changes in three properties of Earth and its orbit around the sun. Together, they are referred to as Milankovitch cycles, after the early 20th century Serbian ...

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