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May 4, 2024
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Apr. 30, 2024 Researchers have unveiled evidence for ancient human resilience to climate change in the Eastern ...
Apr. 30, 2024 The link between massive flood basalt volcanism and the end-Triassic (201 million years ago) mass-extinction is commonly accepted. However, exactly how volcanism led to the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of entire families of organisms is ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A new study has recovered a 3.7-billion-year-old record of Earth's magnetic field, and found that it appears remarkably similar to the field surrounding Earth ...
Apr. 17, 2024 A detailed reconstruction of climate during the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, provides information on the relationship between CO2 and global ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 Marine communities migrated to Antarctica during the Earth's warmest period in 66 million years long before a mass-extinction ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Antarctica harbors a large concentration of meteorites imbuing the icy continent with an unparalleled wealth of information on our solar system. However, these precious meteorites are rapidly ...
Apr. 2, 2024 Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling. The researchers' bleak findings are before factoring in human impact on the climate since the ...
Apr. 1, 2024 A broader past could mean a brighter future for Canada lynx in the U.S., according to recent research. The study indicates that lynx might do well in the future in parts of Utah, central Idaho and ...
Mar. 27, 2024 The Antarctic Circumpolar Current plays an important part in global overturning circulation, the exchange of heat and CO2 between the ocean and atmosphere, and the stability of Antarctica's ice ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A new study has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team compiled a new ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Claims that climate change is natural are inconsistent with new oceanic temperature ...
Mar. 18, 2024 When climate scientists look to the future to determine what the effects of climate change may be, they use computer models to simulate potential outcomes such as how precipitation will change in a ...
New Study Reveals Insight Into Which Animals Are Most Vulnerable to Extinction Due to Climate Change
Mar. 7, 2024 In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Massive volcanic events in Earth's history that released large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere frequently correlate with periods of severe ...
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Feb. 29, 2024 Scientists have discovered that viruses that infect microbes contribute to climate change by playing a key role in cycling methane, a potent greenhouse gas, through the ...
Feb. 28, 2024 Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, according to a new ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Among the vast expanse of Antarctica lies the Thwaites Glacier, the world's widest glacier measuring about 80 miles on the western edge of the continent. Despite its size, the massive landform ...
Feb. 22, 2024 A detailed survey of the volcanic underwater deposits around the Kikai caldera in Japan clarified the deposition mechanisms as well as the event's magnitude. As a result, the research team found ...
Feb. 21, 2024 It has been long assumed that Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats was formed as its ancient namesake lake dried up 13,000 years ago. But new research has gutted that narrative, determining these crusts ...
Feb. 12, 2024 This study reports widespread mineral carbonation of mantle rocks in an oceanic transform fueled by magmatic degassing of CO2. The findings describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon ...
Feb. 8, 2024 The Greenland ice sheet lies thousands of miles from North America yet holds clues to the distant continent's environmental history. Nearly two miles thick in places, the ice sheet grows as snow ...
Feb. 8, 2024 Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrunk suddenly and dramatically at the end of the Last Ice Age, around eight thousand years ago. The evidence, ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Inspired during field work in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, geoscientists have proposed that all-time low volcanic carbon dioxide emissions triggered a 57-million-year-long global ...
Feb. 1, 2024 A new study provides the first evidence that the Arctic's frozen soil is the dominant force shaping Earth's northernmost rivers, confining them to smaller areas and shallower valleys than ...
Jan. 24, 2024 The brown bear is one of the largest living terrestrial carnivores, and is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Unlike many other large carnivores that went extinct at the end of the ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level ...
Jan. 21, 2024 A new way to measure the ocean oxygen level and its connections with carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere during the last ice age could help explain the role oceans played in past glacial ...
Jan. 18, 2024 The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time depends on two key ecological ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Southern Africa contains the vast majority of the world's remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%, respectively). The region's climate is changing rapidly as ...
Jan. 17, 2024 When combined with data from tree-ring records, stalagmites can open up a unique archive to study natural climate fluctuations, a research team has demonstrated. The researchers analyzed the isotopic ...
Jan. 15, 2024 New research has precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the world, helping to track a pivotal moment in the history of Earth when the seas began teeming with new ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Human activity, from burning fossil fuels and fireplaces to the contaminated dust produced by mining, alters Earth's atmosphere in countless ways. Records of these impacts over time are ...
Jan. 11, 2024 A new study shows how state-of-the-art methods and perspectives from archaeology, history, and palaeoecology are shedding new light on 5,500 years of urban ...
Dec. 19, 2023 Early in the 1970s, paleontologists discovered strange fossilized fruits between hardened rock from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth's history. The identity of these fossils ...
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- Ancient Pollen Trapped in Greenland Ice Uncovers Changes in Canadian Forests Over 800 Years
- Ice Cores Provide First Documentation of Rapid Antarctic Ice Loss in the Past
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- Ancient Brown Bear Genomes Sheds Light on Ice Age Losses and Survival
- New Tool Predicts Flood Risk from Hurricanes in a Warming Climate
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- The Heat Is On: Scientists Discover Southern Africa's Temps Will Rise Past the Rhinos' Tolerance
- Stalagmites as Climate Archive
Monday, January 15, 2024
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- The First Assessment of Toxic Heavy Metal Pollution in the Southern Hemisphere Over the Last 2,000 Years
- Ancient Cities Provide Key Datasets for Urban Planning, Policy and Predictions in the Anthropocene
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- More Than a Meteorite: New Clues About the Demise of Dinosaurs
- Crocodile Family Tree Mapped: New Light Shed on Croc Evolution
Friday, December 1, 2023
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- Antarctica's Ancient Ice Sheets Foreshadow Dynamic Changes in Earth's Future
- Decoding Past Climates Through Dripstones
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- 600 Years of Tree Rings Reveal Climate Risks in California
- Landscape Dynamics Determine the Evolution of Biodiversity on Earth
Monday, November 27, 2023
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- How a Climate Model Can Illustrate and Explain Ice-Age Climate Variability
- Study Links Changes in Global Water Cycle to Higher Temperatures
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
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- Climate Change Likely Impacted Human Populations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age
- Sediment Core Analysis Supports New Epoch Characterized by Human Impact on Planet
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
- Raining Cats and Dogs: Global Precipitation Patterns a Driver for Animal Diversity
- Light, Freshwater Sticks to Greenland's East Coast
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- Over 40 Percent of Antarctica's Ice Shelves Reduced in Volume Over 25 Years
- Large Swings in Past Ocean Oxygen Revealed
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- The Gulf Stream Is Warming and Shifting Closer to Shore
- Ancient Maya Reservoirs Offer Lessons for Today's Water Crises
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- Scientists Investigate Grand Canyon's Ancient Past to Predict Future Climate Impacts
- Climate and Human Land Use Both Play Roles in Pacific Island Wildfires Past and Present
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- Bursting Air Bubbles May Play a Key Role in How Glacier Ice Melts
- Stability Inspection for West Antarctica Shows: Marine Ice Sheet Is Not Destabilized Yet, but Possibly on a Path to Tipping
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- Key Role of Ice Age Cycles in Early Human Interbreeding
- Elephant Ancestors´ Teeth Evolved in Response to Long Term Changes in Diet and Climate in Africa
Thursday, August 10, 2023
- A Climate-Orchestrated Early Human Love Story
- How a Massive North Atlantic Cooling Event Disrupted Early Human Occupation in Europe
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
- Then Vs. Now: Did the Horn of Africa Reach a Drought Tipping Point 11,700 Years Ago?
- Drops of Seawater Contain Traces of an Ancient World
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- Research Reveals Sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc Volcanoes
- Climate Change Will Increase Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions
- There May Be Good News About the Oceans in a Globally Warmed World
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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- Massive Underwater Plateau Near Solomon Islands Is Younger and Its Eruption Was More Protracted Than Previously Thought
- Climate Change Likely Led to Violence in Early Andean Populations
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- Half of World's Largest Lakes Losing Water
- Past Climate Change to Blame for Antarctica's Giant Underwater Landslides
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- Great Basin: History of Water Supply in One of the Driest Regions in the USA
- Human Ancestors Preferred Mosaic Landscapes and High Ecosystem Diversity
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- Puerto Rico Tsunami Deposit Could Have Come from Pre-Columbian Megathrust Earthquake
- African Penguins: Climate Refugees from a Distant Past?