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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 -
El Nino And African Monsoon Have Strongly Influenced Intense Hurricane Frequency In The Past
May 23, 2007 — The frequency of intense hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean appears to be closely connected to long-term trends in the El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the West African monsoon, according to new ... > full story -
Climate Change Pushed Neanderthal Into Extinction In Iberian Peninsula, Spanish Researcher Says
May 1, 2007 — Recent studies carried out in Gorham's cave, on Gibraltar, proved to be definitive for this work, researcher asserts. Results show that the Neanderthal extinction could have been greatly determined ... > full story -
Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years
March 28, 2007 — New calculations show that sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has been consistent for the last 420 million years, according to an article in Nature by ... > full story -
New Evidence Puts 'Snowball Earth' Theory Out In The Cold
March 23, 2007 — The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called "Snowball Earth" ... > full story -
Microfossils Unravel Climate History Of Tropical Africa
March 23, 2007 — Scientists obtained for the first time a detailed temperature record for tropical central Africa over the past 25,000 years. They developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history of land ... > full story -
Turkey's Lake Van Provides Precise Insights Into Eurasia's Climate History
March 14, 2007 — The mud at the bottom of Turkey's Lake Van stores information about the climate of the last 500,000 years. Millimeter-thin layers with embedded pollen reveal climate information with a year by ... > full story
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