The Pleistocene epoch lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and included the last ice age, when glaciers and giant megafauna dominated the landscape.

"The Tibetan Plateau was previously thought to be uninhabitable during the last glacial maximum," said Li. Evidence found in ...

The 100,000-year timescale in the glacial/interglacial cycles of the late Pleistocene epoch (the past ∼700,000 years) is commonly attributed to control by variations in the Earth's orbit1. This ...

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about 100.000 years. Deutsch; Toggle navigation. ...

Siberia's Pleistocene Park: Bringing back pieces of the Ice Age to combat climate change 13:37. Temperatures in the Arctic continue to warm twice as fast as the rest of the world; that's according ...

The research paper titled “A cosmogenic 10Be (Beryllium 10) moraine chronology of arid, alpine Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Pioneer Mountains of Montana, USA” is a peer-reviewed ...

More information: Yasuto Watanabe et al, Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles, Communications Earth & Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00765-x.

The ebb and flow of Pleistocene glacial cycles is not random; it follows a predictable pattern dictated by the distinct and deterministic influence of Earth’s orbital geometry, according to ...