Paleoclimatology News

Posted June 16, 2013:

• 'Cold Snap' 116 Million Years Ago Triggered Marine Ecosystem Crisis

Posted June 14, 2013:

• Study of Oceans' Past Raises Worries About Their Future

Posted June 12, 2013:

• When Will the Next Megathrust Hit the West Coast of North America?

Posted June 10, 2013:

• New Theory Proposes Solution to Long-Running Debate as to How Stable the Earth System Is

Posted June 5, 2013:

• Irish Chronicles Reveal Links Between Cold Weather and Volcanic Eruptions
• Ancient Trapped Water Explains Earth's First Ice Age
• 'Lizard King' Fossil Shows Giant Reptiles Coexisted With Mammals During Globally Warm Past

Posted June 3, 2013:

• Acceleration of Ocean Denitrification During Deglaciation Documented

Posted May 29, 2013:

• Subfossil Forest Discovered at Building Site in Zurich

Posted May 28, 2013:

• Historic Sea-Level Change Along New Jersey Coastline Mapped
• Century-Old Ocean Data Provides Further Confirmation of Global Warming

Posted May 27, 2013:

• Antarctic Polar Icecap Is 33.6 Million Years Old, Researchers Show

Posted May 25, 2013:

• Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future by Looking Across Space and Time

Posted May 21, 2013:

• Origins of Human Culture Linked to Rapid Climate Change

Posted May 20, 2013:

• The Mammoth's Lament: How Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change

Posted May 18, 2013:

• Reading Rock to Understand How Climate Change Unfolds

Posted May 14, 2013:

• Research Helps Paint Finer Picture of Massive 1700 Earthquake

Posted May 9, 2013:

• Ice-Free Arctic May Be in Our Future, International Researchers Say

Posted May 8, 2013:

• First Biological Evidence of a Supernova

Posted May 6, 2013:

• Climate Change, Not Human Activity, Led to Megafauna Extinction

Posted April 29, 2013:

• Elucidating Environmental History With 100 Million Laser Beams

Posted April 24, 2013:

• Ice Tubes in Polar Seas -- 'Brinicles' or 'Sea Stalactites' -- Provide Clues to Origin of Life

Posted April 22, 2013:

• Geochemical Method Finds Links Between Terrestrial Climate and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Posted April 21, 2013:

• First 2,000-Year-Long Temperature Reconstructions for Individual Continents

Posted April 18, 2013:

• Sea-Ice Ecosystem Possibly Triggered Evolution of Baleen Whales and Penguins

Posted April 11, 2013:

• Maya Long Count Calendar Calibrated to Modern European Calendar Using Carbon-14 Dating

Posted April 4, 2013:

• A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose

Posted April 3, 2013:

• Ancient Pool of Warm Water Questions Current Climate Models

Posted March 21, 2013:

• Megavolcanoes Tied to Pre-Dinosaur Mass Extinction: Apparent Sudden Climate Shift Could Have Analog Today

Posted March 14, 2013:

• Dinosaur-Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance

Posted March 7, 2013:

• Earth Warmer Today Than During 70 to 80 Percent of the Past 11,300 Years

Posted February 28, 2013:

• Researchers Find New Information About 'Snowball Earth' Period

Posted February 26, 2013:

• Evolution and the Ice Age

Posted February 17, 2013:

• Tree-Ring Data Show History, Pattern to Droughts

Posted February 13, 2013:

• Ice Age Extinction Shaped Australian Plant Diversity

Posted February 11, 2013:

• Isotope Patterns in Ancient Volcanic Sulfur Tell Which Global Cooling Episodes Were Caused by Volcanic Eruptions

Posted February 8, 2013:

• Studying Ice Cores from West Antarctica for Clues as to Why the Earth Began to Emerge from the Ice Age

Posted February 7, 2013:

• New Evidence Suggests Comet or Asteroid Impact Was Last Straw for Dinosaurs
• Volcano Location: Greenhouse-Icehouse Key? Episodic Purging of 'Carbonate Capacitor' Drives Long-Term Climate Cycle

Posted February 4, 2013:

• Tropical Rainfall Patterns Varied Through Time: Deeper Understanding of Drought Cycles in Central America

Posted January 31, 2013:

• Vegetation Changes in Cradle of Humanity: Study Raises Questions About Impact on Human Evolution

Posted January 9, 2013:

• Low Extinction Rates Made California a Refuge for Diverse Plant Species

Posted January 8, 2013:

• Jurassic Ecosystems Were Similar to Modern: Animals Flourish Among Lush Plants

Posted January 7, 2013:

• Who Deforested Central Africa: Humans or Climate?

Posted January 3, 2013:

• Coral Records Suggest El Nino Activity Rises Above Background

Posted December 26, 2012:

• Fluctuating Environment May Have Driven Human Evolution

Posted December 21, 2012:

• Ups and Downs of Biodiversity After Mass Extinction

Posted December 18, 2012:

• Crisis in Syria Has Mesopotamian Precedent, Experts Say

Posted November 29, 2012:

• New Approach Allows Past Data to Be Used to Improve Future Climate Projections

Posted November 28, 2012:

• Skeletons in Cave Reveal Mediterranean Secrets

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