A July 18 post (direct link, archive link) on X, formerly Twitter, features an illustration of the sun. "THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly ...

New research is drawing urgent attention to Milankovitch cycles — the slow but powerful orbital rhythms that have dictated ...

Greenhouse gas emissions released by human activities are causing modern global climate change, according to NASA. However, some social media users are sharing a 2019 article that claims NASA ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It was in the 1920s that a Serbian geophysicist, Mulitin Milanković, theorized that variations in Earth's tilt and wobbling about its axis impact the amount of energy being received ...

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 ...

Milutin Milankovitch hypothesized that the timing of glacial transitions has been controlled by the orbital parameters of the Earth, which suggests that there may be some predictability in the climate ...

What exactly is a Milankovitch Cycle? Let’s answer this question with another one. What causes climate change? Many known causes are man-made, like the excess burning of fossil fuels, which has led to ...

The overwhelming majority of the land area of the Earth is in the Northern Hemisphere, and since it is land surface that causes most of the temperature extremes, it is the variation in solar ...

About 23 million years ago, a huge ice sheet spread over Antarctica, temporarily reversing a general trend of global warming and decreasing ice volume. Now a team of researchers has discovered that ...