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Burning Wetlands Unleash Sequestered Mercury In Wake Of Climate Change
August 22, 2006 — Climate change appears to be contributing to the waking of a dangerous sleeping giant in the most northern wetlands of North America -- mercury. Released into the atmosphere most prodigiously with ... > full story -
Climate Change Was Major Factor In Erosion Of Alps 6 Million Years Ago
August 15, 2006 — The Alps might have reached their zenith 6 million years ago and have been declining since. New research suggests the culprit was likely massive erosion, triggered by a sudden drop in the level of ... > full story -
Ancient Arctic Water Cycles Are Red Flags To Future Global Warming
August 12, 2006 — Ancient plant life recovered in recent Arctic Ocean sampling cores shows that at the time of the last major global warming, humidity, precipitation levels and salinity of the ocean water altered ... > full story -
Ancient Bison Teeth Provide Window On Past Great Plains Climate, Vegetation
August 7, 2006 — Scientists have devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great ... > full story -
Cosmic Dust In Ice Cores Sheds Light On Earth's Past Climate
July 27, 2006 — Each year nearly 40,000 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth from outer space. The first successful chronological study of extraterrestrial dust in Antarctic ice has shown that this amount has remained ... > full story -
Ice Sheets Drive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels, Inverting Previous Ice-Age Theory
July 25, 2006 — New study provides a novel explanation for the rhythms of the ice ages, inverting established theory. New hypothesis may explain why the strongest cycles of ice response are not in correspondence ... > full story -
Catastrophic 'Lake Burst' Chills Climate
June 30, 2006 — Ocean circulation changes during the present warm interglacial were more extensive than previously thought, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Cardiff ... > full story -
First Compilation Of Tropical Ice Cores Shows Abrupt Global Climate Shifts
June 27, 2006 — For the first time, glaciologists have combined and compared sets of ancient climate records trapped in ice cores from the South American Andes and the Asian Himalayas to paint a picture of how ... > full story -
New Study Shows Much Of The World Emerged From Last Ice Age Together
June 11, 2006 — New study of the timing of retreat of glaciers around the world shows that the Earth warmed in a synchronous manner at the same time that CO2 levels were rising at the end of the last Ice Age 17,500 ... > full story -
Where Climate Is Made In A Greenhouse World
June 2, 2006 — New scientific results for the Late Cretaceous greenhouse indicate radically different climatic mechanisms operating about 75-90 million years ago compared to the ones that control today's ... > full story
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