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Could Ocean Currents Change?
August 14, 2007 — Two new studies consider how ocean circulation could change. One study suggests that the melting of North American continental glaciers 8,200 years ago and subsequent rapid sea level rise induced a ... > full story -
Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago
August 1, 2007 — Chronology and adaptability of early humans in different paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental settings are important topics in the study of human evolution. China houses several early-human ... > full story -
Penguin Remains Being Used To Measure Antarctic Ice Movement
July 21, 2007 — Climate change is nothing new. For thousands, perhaps millions of years, Antarctica's massive ice sheet - 5.5 million square miles - has advanced and retreated as the earth's atmosphere cooled and ... > full story -
Fossilized Midges Provide Clues To Future Climate Change
July 9, 2007 — Fossilized midges have helped scientists at the University of Liverpool identify two episodes of abrupt climate change that suggest the UK climate is not as stable as previously ... > full story -
Climate Change Reduces Bat Population In Queensland, Australia
July 9, 2007 — A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state's bat population. Researchers are currently sifting through what is the ... > full story -
Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests; Ice Sheet Is Surprisingly Stable
July 5, 2007 — Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and had a relatively mild climate. The research is painting a picture which is overturning all ... > full story -
Ice Age Extinction Claimed Highly Carnivorous Alaskan Wolves
June 21, 2007 — The extinction of many large mammals at the end of the Ice Age may have packed an even bigger punch than scientists have realized. To the list of victims such as woolly mammoths and saber-toothed ... > full story -
2008 World Monuments Watch List Of 100 Most Endangered Sites
June 9, 2007 — Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites was recently announcedby the World Monuments Fund This year's list highlights three critical man-made threats: political conflict, unchecked urban and ... > full story -
Climate Change Linked To Origins Of Agriculture In Mexico
June 1, 2007 — New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexico's Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental ... > full story -
West African Ocean Sediment Core Links Monsoons To Global Climate Evolution
May 31, 2007 — Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, ... > full story
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