Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth’s Climate Exploration

Three different interactives show how each Milankovitch Cycle affects Earth’s climates with accompanying text and images provide background.

"Our lives literally revolve around cycles: series of events that are repeated regularly in the same order. There are hundreds of different types of cycles in our world and in the universe. Some are natural, such as the change of the seasons, annual animal migrations or the circadian rhythms that govern our sleep patterns. Others are human-produced, like growing and harvesting crops, musical rhythms or economic cycles."