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Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented, Study Says
March 1, 2012 — The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global ... > full storyMore: -
Ice Age Coyotes Were Supersized Compared to Coyotes Today, Fossil Study Reveals
February 27, 2012 — Coyotes today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago -- a mere blink of an eye in geologic terms -- coyotes shrunk to ... > full story -
Ancient Arabic Writings Help Scientists Piece Together Past Climate
February 26, 2012 — Ancient manuscripts written by Arab scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed. The research ... > full storyMore: -
300-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Preserved in Volanic Ash
February 20, 2012 — Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. Paleobotanists have reconstructed this fossilized forest, lending ... > full story -
Linking Human Evolution and Climate Change
February 17, 2012 — It's not a take on climate change we often hear about. But a professor of archaeology, will talk about how climate change impacts human evolution at the world’s largest science ... > full story -
Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
February 5, 2012 — Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even ... > full story -
First Plants Caused Ice Ages, New Research Reveals
February 1, 2012 — 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 land plants had on the climate during ... > full story -
Ancient DNA Holds Clues to Climate Change Adaptation
January 31, 2012 — Thirty-thousand-year-old bison bones discovered in permafrost at a Canadian goldmine are helping scientists unravel the mystery about how animals adapt to rapid environmental ... > full story -
Was the Little Ice Age Triggered by Massive Volcanic Eruptions?
January 30, 2012 — 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 and a related weakening of Atlantic ... > full storyMore: -
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
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