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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 ...
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Massive star explosions may have triggered two mass extinctions in Earth's past: 'It would be terrifying.'
Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...
Supernovas may have played a role in two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions, study suggests
New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...
Nature3y
Green Sahara: African Humid Periods Paced by Earth's Orbital Changes
The main climatic effect of precession is to shift the season when the Earth has its closest pass to the Sun (perihelion) — the so-called precession of the equinoxes. Today, perihelion occurs in ...
Nature7y
Milankovitch Cycles, Paleoclimatic Change, and Hominin Evolution
Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change ... by variations in the cumulative effect of eccentricity and precession (eccentricity modulated precession), whereas higher latitudes ...