Paleoclimatology News

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

Posted November 26, 2012:

• Ancient Microbes Found Living Beneath the Icy Surface of Antarctic Lake
• Using Biomarkers from Prehistoric Human Feces to Track Settlement and Agriculture

Posted November 5, 2012:

• Carbon Buried in the Soil Rises Again
• Climate Modeler Identifies Trigger for Earth's Last Big Freeze
• Massive Volcanic Eruption Puts Past Climate and People in Perspective
• After Long-Ago Mass Extinction, Global Warming Hindered Species' Recovery

Posted October 25, 2012:

• Did the Changing Climate Shrink Europe's Ancient Hippos?

Posted October 19, 2012:

• Bowhead Whales: Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Arctic Whale Mysteries

Posted October 18, 2012:

• Tropical Collapse in Early Triassic Caused by Lethal Heat: Extreme Temperatures Blamed for 'Dead Zone'
• 'Time-Capsule' Japanese Lake Sediment Advances Radiocarbon Dating for Older Objects

Posted October 16, 2012:

• Ice Age Polarity Reversal Was Global Event: Extremely Brief Reversal of Geomagnetic Field, Climate Variability, and Super Volcano

Posted October 15, 2012:

• Climate Change: Circulation of Atlantic Ocean Was Faster During Last Ice Age Than Today

Posted October 3, 2012:

• Methane Emissions Can Be Traced Back to Roman Times

Posted October 1, 2012:

• Clam Shells Yield Clues to Atlantic’s Climate History

Posted September 26, 2012:

• Extreme Climate Change Linked to Early Animal Evolution

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