The Quaternary period spans the last 2.58 million years of Earth's history, including the Pleistocene and the on-going Holocene epochs. It is a time of significant climatic fluctuations and ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new method which could help scientists perform large-scale climate simulations at a fraction of the cost and time needed compared to ...

The Quaternary period in Australasia encompasses dramatic shifts between glacial and interglacial intervals over the past 2.6 million years. During glacial maxima, extensive ice sheets formed on the ...

Climate changes usually happens over long periods of time, but during the last glacial period, extreme fluctuations in temperature occurred within just a few years. Researchers have now been able to ...

Paleoclimatic reconstruction -- Climate and climatic variation -- Dating methods 1 -- Dating methods 2 -- Ice cores -- Marine sediments -- Loess -- Speleothems -- Lake sediments -- Nonmarine geologic ...

The climate of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean was far more turbulent than previously thought—and a new study suggests that ...