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Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt
July 24, 2008 — A small but significant find made during a geological survey provides evidence of the oldest human presence yet discovered along the northernmost margin of Egypt's Nile ... > full story -
Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
July 23, 2008 — A new fossil discovery -- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent -- provides new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. Scientists made ... > full story -
Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana
July 3, 2008 — Was the course of life on the planet altered 12,900 years ago by a giant comet exploding over Canada? New evidence suggests the answer is affirmative. The timing attached to this theory of about ... > full story -
Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests
June 16, 2008 — If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super ... > full story -
Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate
June 12, 2008 — About 15,000 feet up on Tibet's desolate Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, an international research team was surprised to find thick layers of ancient lake sediment filled with plant, fish and animal ... > full story -
'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
April 30, 2008 — Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look ... > full story -
Before Fossil Fuels, Earth's Minerals Kept Carbon Dioxide In Check
April 30, 2008 — Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system -- a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed. Scientists ... > full story -
Formation Of Ice Sheets 34 Million Years Ago Changed Ocean Acidity
April 29, 2008 — Before ice first began to form in Antarctica around 34 million years ago, the Earth was a very different place - but then greenhouse conditions swiftly gave way to an icehouse climate, causing the ... > full story -
Volcanic Eruption Of 1600 Caused Global Disruption
April 25, 2008 — The 1600 eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru had a global impact on human society, according to geologists. The eruption is known to have put a large amount of sulfur into the atmosphere, and tree ring ... > full story -
Current Spike In Atmospheric Methane Mirrors Early Climate Change Events
April 21, 2008 — Using novel isotopic studies, scientists have identified the most important processes responsible for changes in natural methane concentrations over the transition from the last ice age into our warm ... > full story -
World's Oldest Living Tree -- 9550 years old -- Discovered In Sweden
April 16, 2008 — The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and ... > full story -
When Genetics And Geology Meet In Patagonia
April 14, 2008 — When Charles Darwin first set foot on Patagonia, he was a fresh-faced 22-year old yet to finesse his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection. But traveling around the tip of South ... > full story
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