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Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood'
April 3, 2012 — Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to a dramatic and rapid rise in global sea-levels of around 14 ... > full story -
New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events: Hyperthermal Events May Be Triggered by Warming
April 2, 2012 — A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal ... > full story -
Discovery of the First Evidence for Pre-Columbian Sources of Maya Blue
April 2, 2012 — A team of scientists has established a link between contemporary indigenous knowledge and ancient sources of a mineral in the pigment known as Maya Blue. They have demonstrated that the palygorskite ... > full story -
Ancient Egyptian Cotton Unveils Secrets of Domesticated Crop Evolution
April 2, 2012 — Scientists studying 1,600-year-old cotton from the banks of the Nile have found what they believe is the first evidence that punctuated evolution has occurred in a major crop group within the ... > full story -
The Role of Physics in the Sinking of the Titanic
April 1, 2012 — A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the "unsinkable" ship, taking into account the maths and ... > full story -
Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System
March 30, 2012 — Complex organic compounds, including many important to life on Earth, were readily produced under conditions that likely prevailed in the primordial solar system. Scientists came to this conclusion ... > full story -
Precipitation Impacts Glacial Melt, Patagonian Glacier Study Suggests
March 30, 2012 — Glaciers play a vital role in Earth’s climate system, and it’s critical to understand what contributes to their fluctuation. Increased global temperatures are frequently viewed as the ... > full story -
Measuring the Cosmic Dust Swept Up by Earth
March 29, 2012 — Although we think of space as being empty, there is more out there than meets the eye – dust, for example, is everywhere. If all the material between the Sun and Jupiter were compressed ... > full story -
Carbon Dioxide Was Hidden in the Ocean During Last Ice Age
March 29, 2012 — Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for ... > full story -
Fossil Raindrop Impressions Imply Greenhouse Gases Loaded Early Atmosphere
March 28, 2012 — Evidence from fossilized raindrop impressions from 2.7 billion years ago indicates that an abundance of greenhouse gases most likely caused the warm temperatures on ancient ... > full story
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