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Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home
July 21, 2014 — Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of ... full story -
Global Warming 'Pause' Since 1998 Reflects Natural Fluctuation
July 21, 2014 — Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according ... full story -
Oceans Vital for Possibility for Alien Life
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have made an important step in the race to discover whether other planets could develop and sustain life. New research shows the vital role of oceans in moderating climate on Earth-like ... full story -
A 10-Year Endeavor: NASA's Aura and Climate Change
July 18, 2014 — Celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, NASA's Aura satellite and its four onboard instruments measure some of the climate agents in the atmosphere, including greenhouse gases, clouds and ... full story -
Catastrophic Debris Avalanches: A Second Volcanic Hazard
July 18, 2014 — Volcanic hazards aren't limited to eruptions. Debris avalanche landslides can also cause a great deal of damage and loss of life. Stratovolcanoes, with their steep, conical shapes made up of ... full story -
Climate-Cooling Arctic Lakes Soak Up Greenhouse Gases, Study Shows
July 16, 2014 — Arctic thermokarst lakes stabilize climate change by storing more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere, a new study shows. Found in the Arctic and cold mountain regions, thermokarst ... full story -
Tracking the Breakup of Arctic Summer Sea Ice
July 16, 2014 — An international team has placed sensors on and under Arctic sea ice to monitor this season's retreat. Scientists hope to understand the physics of the ice edge in order to predict summer ... full story -
NASA’s High-Flying Laser Altimeter to Check out Summer Sea Ice and More
July 11, 2014 — Sea ice in summer looks dramatically different than sea ice in winter, even in the polar Arctic. Summer snowmelt, pools of water on thinning ice and exposed ocean replace vast winter expanses of ... full story -
Polar Bears from Space: Satellite Imagery a Promising Tool to Monitor Arctic Polar Bears
July 9, 2014 — The potentially severe impacts of climate change in the Arctic may threaten regional wildlife. Scientists trying to develop efficient and effective wildlife monitoring techniques to track Arctic ... full story -
Shark Teeth Analysis Provides Detailed New Look at Arctic Climate Change
July 9, 2014 — A new study shows that some shark species may be able to cope with the rising salinity of Arctic waters that may come with rising temperatures. The Arctic is of special interest today because it is ... full story -
Antarctic Climate and Food Web Strongly Linked
July 7, 2014 — A long-term study of the links between climate and marine life along the rapidly warming West Antarctic Peninsula reveals how changes in physical factors such as wind speed and sea-ice cover send ... full story -
Changing Antarctic Winds Create New Sea Level Threat
July 7, 2014 — New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated. Changes to Antarctic winds have already ... full story -
Rewriting the History of Volcanic Forcing During the Past 2,000 Years
July 6, 2014 — Scientists have completed the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of historic volcanic sulfate emissions in the Southern Hemisphere. The new record is derived from a large number of ... full story -
More People Means More Plant Growth, NASA Data Show
July 1, 2014 — Ecologist Thomas Mueller uses satellite data to study how the patterns of plant growth relate to the movement of caribou and gazelle. The research sparked an idea: Would the footprint of human ... full story -
Ancient Arctic Sharks Tolerated Brackish Water 50 Million Years Ago
June 30, 2014 — Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago, cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana's Lake Ponchatrain does today, says a new ... full story -
Whaling Logbooks Could Hold Key to Retreating Arctic Ice Fronts
June 30, 2014 — Ice fronts from the early 19th century were far more advanced around the Arctic than they are today, researchers analysing whalers’ log books from this time have ... full story -
More Carbohydrates Make Trees More Resistant to Drought
June 30, 2014 — How well tropical trees weather periods of drought depends on the carbohydrates stored, as revealed by a novel experiment conducted by an international team of researchers. The findings are extremely ... full story -
Emperor Penguin in Peril: Climate Change Threatens Dramatic Declines
June 29, 2014 — Scientists studying Emperor penguin populations across Antarctica finds the iconic animals in danger of dramatic declines by the end of the century due to climate change. Their study finds the ... full story -
New Theory on Cause of Ice Age 2.6 Million Years Ago
June 27, 2014 — New research has provided a major new theory on the cause of the ice age that covered large parts of the Northern Hemisphere 2.6 million years ... full story -
Ancient Ocean Currents May Have Changed Pacing and Intensity of Ice Ages: Slowing of Currents May Have Flipped Switch
June 26, 2014 — Researchers have found that the deep ocean currents that move heat around the globe stalled or even stopped about 950,000 years ago, possibly due to expanding ice cover in the north. The slowing ... full story
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Global warming 'pause' since 1998 reflects natural fluctuation
- A 10-year endeavor: NASA's Aura and climate change
- Catastrophic debris avalanches: A second volcanic hazard
- Climate-cooling Arctic lakes soak up greenhouse gases, study shows
- Tracking the breakup of Arctic summer sea ice
- Polar bears from space: Satellite imagery a promising tool to monitor arctic polar bears
- Shark teeth analysis provides detailed new look at Arctic climate change
- Ancient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago
- Whaling logbooks could hold key to retreating Arctic ice fronts
- More carbohydrates make trees more resistant to drought
- Finding elusive emperor penguins: Both surveyors and satellites needed to study remote penguin populations
- Earlier snowmelt prompting earlier breeding of Arctic birds
- Study links Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise 400,000 years ago
- Understanding the ocean's role in Greenland glacier melt
- Cold exposure stimulates beneficial brown fat growth
- Identifying opposite patterns of climate change: Hydrologic seesaw over the past 550,000 years
- A call to better protect Antarctica: Human activity threatening continent
- Discovery of Earth's northernmost perennial spring
- Antarctic species dwindle as icebergs batter shores year-round
- Rise and fall of prehistoric penguin populations charted
- The 'microbial garden' taking the shine off glaciers
- Earth is around 60 million years older than previously thought -- and so is the moon, new research finds
- First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched
- Major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources
- Echoes of ancient Earth identified by scientists?
- Solving the puzzle of ice age climates: Southern Ocean and explanation for 'Last Glacial Maximum'
- Prenatal maternal stress predicts asthma and autism traits in 6 1/2-year-old children
- Humpback whale subspecies revealed by genetic study
- Fossils prove useful in analyzing million year old cyclical phenomena
- Climate change, forest fires drove widespread surface melting of Greenland ice sheet
- Antarctica's ice losses on the rise
- Richest marine reptile fossil bed along Africa's South Atlantic coast is dated at 71.5 mya
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is under way
- Fossil palm beetles 'hind-cast' 50-million-year-old winters
- Comet theory false: Doesn't explain Ice Age cold snap, Clovis changes, animal extinction
- Greenland melting due equally to global warming, natural variations
- Detecting oil spills sandwiched in Arctic ice
- Climate change study reveals unappreciated impacts on biodiversity
- Amphibians in a vice: Climate change robs frogs, salamanders of refuge
- Network for tracking earthquakes exposes glacier activity: Accidental find offers big potential for research on Alaska's glaciers
- Increased infrastructure required for effective oil spill response in U.S. Arctic
- Scientists identify source of mysterious sound in the Southern Ocean
- Fiction prepares us for a world changed by global warming
- Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
- Krypton used to accurately date ancient Antarctic ice
- More questions than answers as mystery of domestication deepens
- Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites
- There's something ancient in the icebox: Three-million-year-old landscape beneath Greenland Ice Sheet
- Methane climate change risk suggested by proof of redox cycling of humic substances
- Study shows lasting effects of drought in rainy Eastern U.S.
- Air temperature influenced African glacial movements at height of last ice age
- Crucial new information about how the ice ages came about
- Odds that global warming is due to natural factors: Slim to none
- Climate paradox deciphered from the Miocene era
- Appearance of night-shining clouds has increased
- Greenland ice cores show industrial record of acid rain, success of US Clean Air Act
- Rare leafcutter bee fossils reveal Ice Age environment at the La Brea Tar Pits
- Conventional theories about Titanic disaster put on ice: Risk of icebergs higher now than in 1912
- Study tests theory that life originated at deep sea vents
- What's going on under the ice? Researchers take a peek
- Amborella, a record of the evolution of flowering plants
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