However, this range expansion wasn't permanent. As the current warm interglacial (the Holocene) progressed, new challenges arose: Indigenous hunting, and later, extensive European industrial sealing.

Three academics at the School of Earth and Environment have been awarded by the Geological Society for their contributions to geoscience.

Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

"The pattern we found is so reproducible that we were able to make an accurate prediction of when each interglacial period of the past million years or so would occur and how long each would last ...

KXAN Austin First Warning Weather Q&A: Climate change, Interglacial periods & Noctilucent clouds Posted: March 9, 2025 | Last updated: March 9, 2025 Meteorologist Rich Segal answers viewer ...

Australia is no stranger to fires, floods, drought, and heat. But a new report from the Australian Climate Commission not only points out that fire hazards and extreme weather events are worsening, it ...