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The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
The Next Ice Age Is 10,000 Years Away, Or Is It?
For millions of years, Earth's climate has been driven by natural cycles linked to its orbit, shifting between ice ages and warm interglacial periods. A new study has uncovered a clear, predictable ...
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Earth’s Next Ice Age Might Already Be on the Way—Here’s What Scientists Just Discovered
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...
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A looming ice age? Scientists find a striking pattern in Earth's history.
The current period should be a stable interglacial, which means the next ice age would begin in about 10,000 years, the researchers said in their findings. “But such a transition to a glacial st ...
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Wildfires spiked during Ice Age climate shifts, according to new study
Driving the news: In a study released this month, researchers from Oregon State University analyzed methane trapped in ice from the last Ice Age to examine ... Changes to our current climate ...
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Ice age cycles directly linked to changes in Earth's orbit for the first time
It has long been known that the current ice age is linked to changes in the Earth's orbit, writes the research team. So far, however, it has not been possible to identify the orbital parameters ...
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The Future is Wild
Documentary series in which scientists discuss what the world may be like in the future. 5 million years in the future the Earth is in the last throes of the current ice age.