Paleoclimatology News

Posted August 25, 2010:

• How Giant Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic 50 Million Years Ago
• True Causes for Extinction of Cave Bear Revealed: More Human Expansion Than Climate Change

Posted August 24, 2010:

• Historic Buildings May Be Better Protected from Climate Change With New Forecast Method

Posted August 20, 2010:

• New Ways to Chart Our Maritime Past

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Dwindling Green Pastures, Not Hunting, May Have Killed Off the Mammoth

Posted August 12, 2010:

• An Ancient Earth Like Ours: Geologists Reconstruct Earth's Climate Belts Between 460 and 445 Million Years Ago

Posted July 12, 2010:

• North Pacific: Global Backup Generator for Past Climate Change

Posted July 1, 2010:

• Human-Made Global Warming Started With Ancient Hunters

Posted June 30, 2010:

• Hunting Weapon 10,000 Years Old Found in Melting Ice Patch

Posted June 25, 2010:

• Higher Wetland Methane Emissions Caused by Climate Warming 40,000 Years Ago

Posted June 17, 2010:

• Carbon Dioxide Is the Missing Link to Past Global Climate Changes

Posted June 16, 2010:

• Delineating Primary and Secondary Organic Carbon in Neoproterozoic Glacial Sediments

Posted June 10, 2010:

• A Cooler Pacific May Have Severely Affected Medieval Europe, North America

Posted June 8, 2010:

• Some Like It Hot: Site of Human Evolution Was Scorching

Posted June 4, 2010:

• Drilling Into the Unknown: First Exploration of a Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake Is a Major Step Closer

Posted June 1, 2010:

• Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows

Posted May 28, 2010:

• Scientists Detect Huge Carbon 'Burp' That Helped End Last Ice Age

Posted May 27, 2010:

• Farmers' Beliefs on a Higher Plain

Posted May 26, 2010:

• 20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa

Posted May 18, 2010:

• Climate Change Played Major Role in Mass Extinction of Mammals 50,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

Posted May 8, 2010:

• Climate Change and Mountain Building Led to Mammal Diversity Patterns

Posted May 2, 2010:

• Global Glaciation Snowballed Into Giant Change in Carbon Cycle

Posted April 28, 2010:

• Scientists Study 'Glaciovolcanoes,' Mountains of Fire and Ice, in Iceland, British Columbia, US

Posted April 21, 2010:

• Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings

Posted April 15, 2010:

• Stalagmite Reveals Carbon Footprint of Early Native Americans

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Deepest Core Drilled from Antarctic Peninsula; May Contain Glacial Stage Ice
• Ice Age Climate Change Did Not Pose Significant Challenges to First Americans, Study Suggests

Posted April 6, 2010:

• Scientists to Unearth Ice Age Secrets from Preserved Tree Rings

Posted April 4, 2010:

• Not So Fast! Andes Rise Was Gradual, Not Abrupt

Posted April 1, 2010:

• Was a Giant Comet Responsible for a North American Catastrophe in 11,000 BC?
• Why Earth Wasn't One Big Ball of Ice 4 Billion Years Ago When Sun's Radiation Was Weaker

Posted March 31, 2010:

• Ice Sheet Melt Identified as Trigger of 'Big Freeze'

Posted March 30, 2010:

• Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse? Evidence Suggests Changing Environment Can Bring Down a Civilization

Posted March 27, 2010:

• Prolonged Climatic Stress Main Reason for Mass Extinction 65 Million Years Ago, Paleontologist Says

Posted March 26, 2010:

• Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch? Earth Has Entered New Age of Geological Time, Experts Say

Posted March 25, 2010:

• Summers Were Wetter in the Middle Ages Than They Are Today

Posted March 23, 2010:

• How Dinosaurs Rose to Prominence

Posted March 15, 2010:

• Fossil of Early Terrestrial Amphibian Discovered

Posted March 13, 2010:

• Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today

Posted March 9, 2010:

• Drastic Musk Ox Population Decline 12,000 Years Ago Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds

Posted March 7, 2010:

• Climate Fluctuations 115,000 Years Ago: Were Short Warm Periods Typical for Transitions to Glacial Epochs?

Posted March 5, 2010:

• Snowball Earth: New Evidence Hints at Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago

Posted March 3, 2010:

• Strategic Research Program Needed to Determine Whether, How Past Climate Influenced Human Evolution

Posted March 1, 2010:

• Ancient DNA from Rare Fossil Reveals That Polar Bears Evolved Recently and Adapted Quickly

Posted February 25, 2010:

• More Tropical Cyclones in Past Could Play Role in Warmer Future

Posted February 24, 2010:

• Geologists Look for Answers in Antarctica: Did Ice Exist at Equator Some 300 Million Years Ago?

Posted February 17, 2010:

• Stress and Trade-Offs Explain Life's Diversity: A New Model

Posted February 12, 2010:

• Models of Sea Level Change During Ice-Age Cycles Challenged

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