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Past ice sheets have retreated rapidly, raising global sea level at rates >1 cm per year, with marine ice sheets collapsing and terrestrial ice sheets retreating in a more gradual fashion.

This sample is particularly intriguing because it provides more context for the mysterious Mid-Pleistocene Transition—a period in Earth’s history when the glacial-interglacial cycle slowly ...

There are times when the global climate is warmer (interglacial phases) and times when it has been cooler (glacial phases), when there have been ice ages. The last major cold period was known as ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

At this time the Eemian Interglacial ended and was followed by the Weichselian Glacial which ended 15,000 years ago.

Glacial and interglacial periods are thought to alternate depending on changes in Earth's axial tilt and orbit around the sun.