• Kepler’s forgotten sunspot observations reshape our understanding of Maunder Minimum, coldest part of Little Ice Age

    Johannes Kepler’s half-forgotten 1607 sunspot drawings were re-examined in a 2024 study and revealed previously hidden information about the solar cycles before the Maunder Minimum, a unique grand solar minimum in observational history. This study questions previous assumptions and improves on the historical chronology of solar cycles.

  • How Little Ice Age displaced the tropical rain belt

    In the most comprehensive reconstruction of rainfall patterns within the Intertropical Convergence Zone for the past 2000 years, a team of researchers led by ETH Zurich describe how even small changes in global temperature can trigger a migration of the tropical…

  • Study claims new ‘Little Ice Age’ already underway

    The Head of Space Research Laboratory at the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, announced the new Little Ice Age started at the end of 2015. According to the new research, our Sun has been in the…