{"id":207415,"date":"2025-02-28T03:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-match-earths-ice-age-cycles-with-orbital-shifts"},"modified":"2025-02-28T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:17:59","slug":"scientists-match-earths-ice-age-cycles-with-orbital-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-match-earths-ice-age-cycles-with-orbital-shifts","title":{"rendered":"Scientists match Earth\u2019s ice age cycles with orbital shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-match-earths-ice-age-cycles-with-orbital-shifts3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adp3491\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<p>An international team, including researchers from UC Santa Barbara, made their prediction based on a new interpretation of the small changes in Earth\u2019s orbit of the sun, which lead to massive shifts in the planet\u2019s climate over periods of thousands of years. The study tracks the natural cycles of the planet\u2019s climate over a period of a million years. Their findings offer new insights into Earth\u2019s dynamic climate system and represent a step-change in understanding the planet\u2019s glacial cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests the onset of the next ice age could be expected in 10,000 years\u2019 time. The findings are published in the journal Science. An international [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}