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Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models
September 11, 2008 — An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000 year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and ... > full story -
Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age
September 8, 2008 — Geologists are digging in the bed on the western bank of what was once a 700-800 kilometre-long lake along the 62nd parallel in Russia. Large lakes, dammed up by a huge ice sheet one or more times ... > full story -
Why Is Greenland Covered In Ice? Changes In Carbon Dioxide Levels Explain Transition
August 27, 2008 — A fall in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, close to that of pre-industrial times, explains the transition from a mostly ice-free Greenland of three million years ago to the ice-covered region we ... > full story -
New Climate Record Shows Century-Long Droughts In Eastern North America
August 19, 2008 — A stalagmite in a West Virginia cave has yielded the most detailed geological record to date on climate cycles in eastern North America over the past 7,000 years. The new study confirms that during ... > full story -
Humans Implicated In Prehistoric Animal Extinctions With New Evidence
August 11, 2008 — Scientists sheds new light on the role that our ancestors played in the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals. Their study suggests that the mass extinction of Tasmania's large prehistoric ... > full story -
Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent
August 5, 2008 — Scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra -- in the form of fossilized plants and insects -- on the interior of the southernmost continent ... > full story -
Tracking Down Abrupt Climate Changes: Rapid Natural Cooling Occurred 12,700 Years Ago
August 1, 2008 — Researchers have shown, for the first time, that an extremely fast climate change occurred in Western Europe. This took place long before human-made changes in the atmosphere, and is causatively ... > full story -
Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
July 31, 2008 — Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in ... > full story -
Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change
July 27, 2008 — A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers have now found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about ... > full story -
Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt
July 23, 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
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