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Discovery of Historical Photos Sheds Light on Greenland Ice Loss
May 29, 2012 — A chance discovery of 80-year-old photo plates in a Danish basement is providing new insight into how Greenland glaciers are melting ... > full story -
Ancient Tree-Ring Records from Southwest U.S. Suggest Today's Megafires Are Truly Unusual
May 16, 2012 — Today's mega forest fires of the southwestern U.S. are truly unusual and exceptional in the long-term record, suggests an unprecedented study that examined 1,500 years of ancient tree ring and fire ... > full story -
New Research Brings Satellite Measurements and Global Climate Models Closer
May 7, 2012 — One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other ... > full story -
Gaseous Emissions from Dinosaurs May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth
May 7, 2012 — Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet. That's according to ... > full story -
Did Exploding Stars Help Life on Earth Thrive?
April 24, 2012 — Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars -- supernovae -- near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of ... > full story -
Diversity Aided Mammals’ Survival Over Deep Time
April 23, 2012 — The first study of how mammals in North America adapted to climate change in “deep time” found that families with greater diversity were more stable and maintained larger ranges than less ... > full story -
What Triggers a Mass Extinction? Habitat Loss and Tropical Cooling Were Once to Blame
April 10, 2012 — The second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history coincided with a short but intense ice age. Although it has long been agreed that the so-called Late Ordovician mass extinction was related to ... > full story -
New Mechanism of Past Global Warming? Thawing Permafrost 50 Million Years Ago Led to Global Warming Events
April 4, 2012 — Climate scientists have proposed a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events about 55 million years ago, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, ... > full story -
Rising CO2 Levels Linked to Global Warming During Last Deglaciation
April 4, 2012 — Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationship ... > full story -
Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood'
April 3, 2012 — Coral off Tahiti has linked the collapse of massive ice sheets 14,600 years ago to a dramatic and rapid rise in global sea-levels of around 14 ... > full story
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