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Ice Ages And Rivers May Have Affected Gorilla Diversification
December 11, 2007 — Geography and historical climate change may have both played a major role in gorilla evolutionary diversification, according to a new genetic study by Cardiff University and the University of New ... > full story -
Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate Six Million Years Ago
December 3, 2007 — A researcher has discovered three new rodent species which inhabited the Guadix basin in the upper Turoliense and the Pliocene. His doctoral thesis is based on the analysis of the teeth of these ... > full story -
'Noah's Flood' Kick-started European Farming?
November 19, 2007 — The flood believed to be behind the Noah's Ark myth kick-started European agriculture. This research paper assesses the impact of the collapse of the North American (Laurentide) Ice Sheet, 8,000 ... > full story -
Origin Of 'Breathable' Atmosphere Half A Billion Years Ago Discovered
October 30, 2007 — Geologists have uncovered evidence of when Earth may have first supported an oxygen-rich atmosphere similar to the one we breathe today. The study suggests that upheavals in the earth's crust ... > full story -
Longest Living Animal? Clam -- 400 Years Old -- Found In Icelandic Waters
October 29, 2007 — A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years. Is this the longest-lived animal known to science? Can you imagine living for four centuries? Scientists believe they have found an ... > full story -
Methane Bubbling From Arctic Lakes, Now And At End Of Last Ice Age
October 26, 2007 — Scientists have now identified a new likely source of a spike in atmospheric methane coming out of the North during the end of the last ice age. Methane bubbling from arctic lakes could have been ... > full story -
New Way To Measure Ancient Ocean Temperatures Refined
October 25, 2007 — A new thermometer measures seawater temperature dependent changes in the cell wall composition of archeabacteria. Climate reconstructions should always be based on comparisons of several types of ... > full story -
Ancient Fossil Evidence Supports Carbon Dioxide As Driver Of Global Warming
October 17, 2007 — A new way to study Earth's past climate by analyzing the chemical composition of ancient marine fossils has been devised. The first published tests with the method further support the view that ... > full story -
Reading Past Climates From Ice Cores
October 15, 2007 — Climate change is a reality today, but how can we find out about the future dangers it poses? What we really need is a full record of the Earth's climate for several hundred thousand years, complete ... > full story -
Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region
October 11, 2007 — This new study adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and into Asia less than 100,000 years before present. The comprehensive review of human genetic, ... > full story -
Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution -- Out Of Africa
October 9, 2007 — From 135,000 to 90,000 years ago tropical Africa had megadroughts more extreme and widespread than any previously known for that region, according to new research. Learning that now-lush tropical ... > full story -
Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says
October 2, 2007 — A new study contradicts the view that carbon dioxide was responsible for the meltdown that ended the last ice age. Deep-sea temperatures rose 1,300 years before atmospheric carbon dioxide, ruling out ... > full story
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