Paleoclimatology News

Posted September 10, 2009:

• Suffocating Seas: Clues About Timing And Causes Of Oxygen-Free Event In Cretaceous Ocean

Posted August 27, 2009:

• New Temperature Reconstruction From Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
• Mysterious Glaciers That Grew When Asia Heated Up

Posted August 25, 2009:

• Scientists Propose Antarctic Location For 'Missing' Ice Sheet

Posted August 24, 2009:

• Shark Teeth Provide Key To North Sea’s Climatic Past

Posted August 18, 2009:

• Ancient Climate: The Greenhouse Gas That Saved The World

Posted August 17, 2009:

• Agricultural Methods Of Early Civilizations May Have Altered Global Climate

Posted August 6, 2009:

• Long Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise Of Ice Ages? Research Into Earth's Wobble
• Climate-Caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals

Posted August 1, 2009:

• Middle Miocene Oxygen Minimum Zone Expansion Offshore West Africa: Evidence For Global Cooling Precursor Events

Posted July 31, 2009:

• Extraterrestrial Platinum Was 'Stirred' Into Earth

Posted July 27, 2009:

• When Did Humans Return After Last Ice Age?

Posted July 22, 2009:

• Indications For Volcanic Eruptions In The Younger Geological History Found In Labrador Sea

Posted July 20, 2009:

• California's Channel Islands Hold Evidence Of Clovis-Age Comets

Posted July 16, 2009:

• Ecologist Brings Century-Old Eggs To Life To Study Evolution

Posted July 15, 2009:

• Major Arctic Sea-Ice Formed Earlier Than Thought

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Marine Microorganisms: Surviving Mass Extinction By Leading A Double Life

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change
• Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude

Posted July 1, 2009:

• Plants Save The Earth From An Icy Doom

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Mid-Pliocene Asian Monsoon Intensification And The Onset Of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation

Posted June 22, 2009:

• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain

Posted June 21, 2009:

• Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In A Geologic Instant,' Study Of Prehistoric Glacier Shows

Posted June 18, 2009:

• Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Mammoths Survived In Britain Until 14,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Suggests
• Ancient Climate Change: When Palm Trees Gave Way To Spruce Trees

Posted June 16, 2009:

• Ancient Ice Age, Once Regarded As Brief 'Blip' Found To Have Lasted For 30 Million Years

Posted June 15, 2009:

• Sediment Yields Climate Record For Past Half-Million Years

Posted June 2, 2009:

• Ancient Mammals Shifted Diets As Climate Changed

Posted May 28, 2009:

• Ancient Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Mass Extinction

Posted May 27, 2009:

• Lessons From The Past: Research Examines How Past Communities Coped With Climate Change

Posted May 22, 2009:

• Seeing Beyond The Invisible: Uncovering Our Planet’s Past To Help Predict Its Future

Posted May 18, 2009:

• First Evidence Of Pre-Industrial Mercury Pollution In The Andes
• From Greenhouse To Ice House: Important Role Of The Indonesian Gateway Suggested

Posted May 15, 2009:

• Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change

Posted May 7, 2009:

• Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

Posted April 27, 2009:

• New Blow Against Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory, Geologists Find

Posted April 23, 2009:

• Ice Sheet Behavior Much More Volatile And Dynamic Than Previously Thought, Tahiti Corals Show
• No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change? Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming Event

Posted April 20, 2009:

• Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change

Posted April 16, 2009:

• Mega-Droughts In Sub-Saharan Africa Normal For Region: Droughts Likely To Worsen With Climate Change

Posted April 9, 2009:

• Earth Under Global Cooling

Posted March 30, 2009:

• New Theory On Largest Known Mass Extinction In Earth's History

Posted March 9, 2009:

• Silica Algae Reveal How Ecosystems React To Climate Changes

Posted February 26, 2009:

• Carbon Dioxide Drop And Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier To Form

Posted February 16, 2009:

• Climate 'Flickering' Ended Last Ice Age In North Atlantic Region

Posted February 11, 2009:

• Planet Earth: Avoiding The Hothouse And The Icehouse Of The Future

Posted February 9, 2009:

• Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered

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