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Antarctic Plants And Animal Life Survived Ice Ages
September 30, 2007 — Springtails, mites, worms and plant life could help solve the mystery of Antarctica's glacial history according to new research. Scientists report that the evolutionary history of Antarctica's ... > full story -
Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions
September 25, 2007 — What killed the woolly mammoths? Scientists now suggests that a comet or meteorite exploded over the planet roughly 12,900 years ago, causing the abrupt climate changes that led to the extinction of ... > full story -
Increased Bering Sea Ice Explains Prehistoric Fur Seal Rookeries
September 20, 2007 — The Bering Sea provides critical habitat for many species of marine mammals, including seals, sea lions and whales. The predictable formation and movement of sea ice is a defining feature of this ... > full story -
New Evidence On The Role Of Climate In Neanderthal Extinction
September 13, 2007 — The mystery of what killed the Neanderthals has moved a step closer to resolution after a new study has ruled out one of the competing theories -- catastrophic climate change -- as the most likely ... > full story -
Refugia Of Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Could Be Basis For Its Regeneration
September 10, 2007 — Changes that have occurred in Brazil tropical rainforest for more than 100,000 years were studied by a team of researchers. They combined data from botany, palynology and genetics. Results indicated ... > full story -
Looking For Life In And Under Antarctic Ice
September 1, 2007 — Antarctica is home to the largest body of ice on Earth. Prior to approximately 10 years ago, no one thought that life could exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which can be more than two miles ... > full story -
Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution
August 31, 2007 — More than three million years ago, early hominins evolved the ability to walk upright and in doing so started us along the evolutionary path that eventually gave rise to Homo sapiens. It was Darwin ... > full story -
Migration of Early Humans From Africa Aided By Wet Weather
August 30, 2007 — The African origin of early modern humans 200,000--150,000 years ago is now well documented, with archaeological data suggesting that a major migration from tropical east Africa to the Levant took ... > full story -
Could Ocean Currents Change?
August 15, 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 2, 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 23, 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 11, 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
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