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Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
Some climate cooling caused
by past volcanic eruptions
may not be evident in
tree-ring reconstructions of
temperature change because
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First Plants Caused Ice Ages, New Research Reveals
New research reveals how the
arrival of the first plants
470 million years ago
triggered a series of ice
ages. The research reveals
the effects that the first
... > full story
Ancient DNA Holds Clues to Climate Change Adaptation
Thirty-thousand-year-old
bison bones discovered in
permafrost at a Canadian
goldmine are helping
scientists unravel the
mystery about how animals
... > full story
Was the Little Ice Age Triggered by Massive Volcanic Eruptions?
Scientists suggest that the
Little Ice Age was triggered
by an unusual, 50-year
episode of four massive
volcanic eruptions. This led
to an expansion of sea ice
... > full story
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Neanderthals and Their Contemporaries Engineered Stone Tools, Anthropologists Discover
January 24, 2012 — New published research from anthropologists in the UK supports the long-held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone ... > full story -
Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered
January 13, 2012 — Based on a hominid molar, scientists from Germany, Bulgaria and France have documented that great apes survived in Europe in savannah-like landscapes until seven million years ... > full story -
Could Siberian Volcanism Have Caused the Earth's Largest Extinction Event?
January 9, 2012 — Around 250 million years ago there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the cause of this event is a mystery, it has ... > full story -
The Bechstein's Bat, More Mediterranean Than Thought
January 4, 2012 — The Bechstein’s bat or Myotis bechsteinii lives in deciduous forests. It used to be very common in the Holocene era, but today there are only a few dispersed groups, despite the fact that a ... > full story -
Over 65 Million Years, North American Mammal Evolution Has Tracked With Climate Change
December 27, 2011 — Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years, shows a novel statistical ... > full story -
Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes
December 8, 2011 — New research into the Earth's paleoclimate history suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not ... > full story -
Global Sea Surface Temperature Data Provides New Measure of Climate Sensitivity Over the Last Half Million Years
December 6, 2011 — Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance over the last half million ... > full story -
Ancient Dry Spells Offer Clues About the Future of Drought
December 5, 2011 — As parts of Central America and the US Southwest endure some of the worst droughts to hit those areas in decades, scientists have unearthed new evidence about ancient dry spells that suggest the ... > full story -
Early Earth May Have Been Prone to Deep Freezes, Study Finds
December 5, 2011 — Researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the ... > full story -
Simultaneous Ice Melt in Antarctic and Arctic
December 2, 2011 — A new article shows that the two hemispheres attained their maximum ice sheet size at nearly the same time and started melting 19,000 years ago. This simultaneous melting was presumably caused by ... > full story
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