Paleoclimatology News

Posted August 1, 2008:

• Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago

Posted July 29, 2008:

• Insect Biodiversity In Amazon May Be Result Of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers

Posted July 28, 2008:

• Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change

Posted July 25, 2008:

• Past Climate Change: Continental Stretching Preceding Opening Of The Drake Passage

Posted July 24, 2008:

• Predynastic Human Presence Discovered By Core Drilling At The Northern Nile Delta Coast, Egypt

Posted July 23, 2008:

• Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer

Posted July 3, 2008:

• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana

Posted June 16, 2008:

• Sea's Ebb And Flow Drive World's Big Extinction Events, Study Suggests

Posted June 12, 2008:

• Fossils Found In Tibet Revise History Of Elevation, Climate

Posted April 30, 2008:

• 'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History
• Before Fossil Fuels, Earth's Minerals Kept Carbon Dioxide In Check

Posted April 29, 2008:

• Formation Of Ice Sheets 34 Million Years Ago Changed Ocean Acidity

Posted April 26, 2008:

• Sierra Nevada Rose To Current Height Earlier Than Thought, Say Geologists

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Volcanic Eruption Of 1600 Caused Global Disruption

Posted April 21, 2008:

• Current Spike In Atmospheric Methane Mirrors Early Climate Change Events

Posted April 16, 2008:

• World's Oldest Living Tree 9550 Years Old Discovered In Sweden

Posted April 14, 2008:

• When Genetics And Geology Meet In Patagonia

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Warming Climate May Cause Arctic Tundra To Burn

Posted March 2, 2008:

• West Antarctic Glaciers Melting At 20 Times Former Rate, Rock Analysis Shows

Posted February 26, 2008:

• Past Greenhouse Warming Provides Clues To What The Future May Hold

Posted January 28, 2008:

• New Antarctic Ice Core To Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet

Posted January 24, 2008:

• Seismic Images Show Dinosaur-Killing Meteor Made Bigger Splash

Posted January 11, 2008:

• Warming Climate Can Support Glacial Ice: It Did In Much Warmer Times

Posted December 27, 2007:

• Climatic Chain Reaction Caused Runaway Greenhouse Effect 55 Million Years Ago

Posted December 22, 2007:

• Geologists Say 'Wall Of Africa' Allowed Humanity To Emerge

Posted December 21, 2007:

• Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles In Sediments

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Ancient Fish Bones Reveal Impacts Of Global Warming Beneath The Sea

Posted December 17, 2007:

• Ancient Flood Disrupted Ocean Circulation And Triggered Climate Cooling

Posted December 11, 2007:

• Ice Ages And Rivers May Have Affected Gorilla Diversification

Posted December 3, 2007:

• Rodent Fossils Provide Data On Climate Six Million Years Ago

Posted November 19, 2007:

• 'Noah's Flood' Kick-Started European Farming?

Posted October 30, 2007:

• Origin Of 'Breathable' Atmosphere Half A Billion Years Ago Discovered

Posted October 29, 2007:

• Longest Living Animal? Clam 400 Years Old Found In Icelandic Waters

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Methane Bubbling From Arctic Lakes, Now And At End Of Last Ice Age

Posted October 25, 2007:

• New Way To Measure Ancient Ocean Temperatures Refined

Posted October 17, 2007:

• Ancient Fossil Evidence Supports Carbon Dioxide As Driver Of Global Warming

Posted October 15, 2007:

• Reading Past Climates From Ice Cores

Posted October 11, 2007:

• Environmental Setting Of Human Migrations In The Circum-Pacific Region

Posted October 9, 2007:

• Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven Human Evolution Out Of Africa

Posted October 2, 2007:

• Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says

Posted October 1, 2007:

• Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change

Posted September 30, 2007:

• Antarctic Plants And Animal Life Survived Ice Ages

Posted September 25, 2007:

• Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source Of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions

Posted September 20, 2007:

• Increased Bering Sea Ice Explains Prehistoric Fur Seal Rookeries

Posted September 13, 2007:

• New Evidence On The Role Of Climate In Neanderthal Extinction

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Refugia Of Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Could Be Basis For Its Regeneration

Posted September 1, 2007:

• Looking For Life In And Under Antarctic Ice

Posted August 31, 2007:

• Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution

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