Paleoclimatology News

Posted May 14, 2004:

• Impact At Bedout: 'Smoking Gun' Of Giant Collision That Nearly Ended Life On Earth Is Identified

Posted March 1, 2004:

• Ice Sheets Caused Massive Sea Level Change During Late Cretaceous

Posted February 9, 2004:

• Century May Bring Unprecedented Climate Change To Southern Hemisphere

Posted January 28, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Humans Affecting Aquatic Ecology In Canada, United States

Posted December 25, 2003:

• Tropical Oceans Were Overheated During Prehistoric Greenhouse Effect

Posted December 19, 2003:

• Stable Isotope Data Provide Evidence For Huge Global Methane Release About 600 Million Years Ago

Posted December 2, 2003:

• Meteor Likely Caused Earth's Greatest Extinction Event

Posted November 25, 2003:

• Book Offers Overview Of Cave Paleontology

Posted November 21, 2003:

• New Evidence Says Earth’s Greatest Extinction Caused By Ancient Meteorite

Posted November 3, 2003:

• Debate Heats Up On Role Of Climate In Human Evolution

Posted October 31, 2003:

• Pack Rat Middens Give Unique View On Evolution And Climate Change In Past Million Years
• Scientists Find Evolution Of Life Helped Keep Earth Habitable

Posted October 20, 2003:

• Medieval Climate Not So Hot

Posted September 29, 2003:

• Early Andean Cultures Part Of Intensive Silver Industry; New Evidence Suggests Major Metallurgy Took Place Earlier Than Originally Believed

Posted September 16, 2003:

• Role Of Tropics In Global Climate Change Gains Attention

Posted September 15, 2003:

• Is This What Killed The Dinosaurs? New Evidence Supports Volcanic Eruption Theory

Posted August 29, 2003:

• Modern Global Warming More Damaging Than In The Past

Posted August 28, 2003:

• Methane Thought To Be Responsible For Mass Extinction

Posted May 5, 2003:

• Fossilized Fish Act As Ancient Thermometer

Posted February 26, 2003:

• Fossil Records Show Methane In Seafloor Sediments Released During Periods Of Rapid Climate Warming

Posted February 25, 2003:

• Evidence Acquits Clovis People Of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say

Posted February 19, 2003:

• Methane And Mini-horses: Fossils Reveal Effects Of Global Warming

Posted January 15, 2003:

• Dinosaurs Experienced Climate Changes Before K-T Collision

Posted December 11, 2002:

• Ancient Sea Creatures Serve As Natural Thermometers For Climate Prediction

Posted August 1, 2002:

• The Prehistory Of Neotropical Lowland Forests

Posted January 30, 2002:

• Adsorption On Clay Accounts For Organic-Rich Rocks

Posted January 25, 2002:

• Climate Change Following Collapse Of The Maya Empire

Posted November 8, 2001:

• Why The Big Animals Went Down In The Pleistocene: Was It Just The Climate?

Posted October 25, 2001:

• Blame North America Megafauna Extinction On Climate Change, Not Human Ancestors

Posted August 28, 2001:

• Permian Extraterrestrial Impact Caused Largest Mass Extinction On Earth

Posted June 21, 2001:

• Evidence Of Ancient El Ninos And Cultural Development

Posted June 4, 2001:

• Ancient Oceans Experienced A Global Surge In Biological Productivity

Posted May 18, 2001:

• Changes In Sun’s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region

Posted May 16, 2001:

• New Technique Illuminates Events Obscured In The Geologic Record

Posted January 29, 2001:

• Climate Change Played A Role In Collapse Of Ancient Societies, Suggests New Research

Posted October 20, 2000:

• Finding By Syracuse University And University Of Michigan Researchers Reveals Secret To Mass Extinction Events

Posted June 5, 2000:

• Equatorial Water May Have Provided Means Of Survival

Posted February 8, 2000:

• Researchers Find Evidence Of 16th Century Epic Drought Over North America

Posted January 26, 2000:

• We Are Not Alone - Or Are We?

Posted June 21, 1999:

• UF Professor, Dutch Researchers Develop New Global Warming Tracking

Posted January 11, 1999:

• Early Human Activity In Australia May Have Led To Animal Extinctions

Posted December 14, 1998:

• Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina

Posted December 4, 1998:

• Oldest Ice Core From The Tropics Recovered, New Ice Age Evidence

Posted November 2, 1998:

• Dinosaur Tooth Enamel: A Key To Investigating Ancient Climate On Land

Posted October 19, 1998:

• Did Fur Trappers Trigger Landscape Changes?

Posted October 15, 1998:

• Life Flourished When Earth Was Warmer, Scientist Says

Posted September 12, 1998:

• 14,000 Years Of Atmospheric Lead Emissions Recorded In Swiss Peat Bog

Posted August 24, 1998:

• Geologist Finds Evidence That Mass Extinctions Are Not Unique In Affecting Global Diversity Trends

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