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Prehistoric Greenhouse Data from Ocean Floor Could Predict Earth's Future, Study Finds
October 27, 2011 — New research indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were influenced by circulation in the deep ocean. These changes in circulation ... > full story -
How Life Might Have Survived 'Snowball Earth'
October 11, 2011 — New research indicates that simple life in the form of photosynthetic algae could have survived a "snowball Earth" event, living in a narrow body of water with characteristics similar to today's Red ... > full story -
Long-Lost Lake Agassiz Offers Clues to Climate Change
October 5, 2011 — What caused water levels to drop in immense yet long-vanished Lake Agassiz? New research suggests that conditions 12,000 years ago encouraged evaporation. Not long ago, geologically speaking, a ... > full story -
Ice Age Carbon Mystery: Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Not Tied to Pacific Ocean, as Had Been Suspected
October 3, 2011 — After the last Ice Age peaked about 18,000 years ago, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide rose about 30 percent. Scientists believe that the additional CO2 -- the source of which was ... > full storyMore: -
Climatic Fluctuations Drove Key Events in Human Evolution, Researchers Find
September 21, 2011 — Researchers have found that periods of rapid fluctuation in temperature coincided with the emergence of the first distant relatives of human beings and the appearance and spread of stone ... > full story -
800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability: Earth's Climate Is Capable of Very Rapid Transitions
September 8, 2011 — An international team of scientists has produced a prediction of what climate records from Greenland might look like over the last 800,000 years. The team's reconstruction is based on the much longer ... > full story -
Woolly Rhino Fossil Discovery in Tibet Provides Important Clues to Evolution of Ice Age Giants
September 1, 2011 — Fossil discoveries from Tibet offer new insights into the origin of the cold-adapted Pleistocene megafauna. A new research paper posits that the harsh winters of the rising Tibetan Plateau may have ... > full storyMore: -
Ancient Clams Yield New Information About Greenhouse Effect on Climate
August 22, 2011 — Ancient fossilized clams that lived off the coast of Antarctica some 50 million years ago have a story to tell about El Niño, according to new ... > full story -
La Nina's Distant Effects in East Africa: Droughts and Floods Are Remote-Controlled Climate Effects
August 4, 2011 — For 20,000 years, climate variability in East Africa has been following a pattern that is evidently a remote effect of the ENSO phenomenon (El Nino Southern Oscillation) known as El Nino/La Nina. ... > full storyMore: -
'Amino Acid Time Capsule': New Way to Date the Past
August 4, 2011 — British scientists are using an 'amino acid time capsule' to date the Quaternary period, stretching back nearly three million years. It is the first widespread application of refinements of the ... > full story
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