A new study reveals the Southern Ocean’s key role in the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition, highlighting its impact on ...

For years, scientists have struggled to understand two major mysteries about the Earth’s climate: what triggered the ...

and prolonged ice age cycles. Dr. Hines added, "Our research sheds light on the intricate interplay between ocean dynamics ...

Bond, G. et al. "The North Atlantic's 1-2 kyr climate rhythm: Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard/Oeschger Cycles and the Little Ice Age," In Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial ...

During the past billion years, the Earth's climate has fluctuated between warm periods - sometimes even completely ice-free - and cold periods, when glaciers scoured the continents. The cold ...

Henri Breuli/Durham University/PA Wire Dots like these from 23,000 years ago helped Ice Age hunter-gatherers survive ... by working out the birth cycles of similar present-day animals, they ...

Using the birth cycles of equivalent animals today as a ... Prof Pettitt said: "The results show that Ice Age hunter-gatherers were the first to use a systematic calendar and marks to record ...